I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead.

You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.

The light extinguishes all the flaming arrows of darkness.

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

Big news on CNN, a search has uncovered illegal biochemical agents, toxins and other dangerous substances. Not in Iraq, in Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.