I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Poetry is the sound of the human animal.

I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed.

Logan felt raw inside from the look of betrayal she had leveled on him. Who was he to demand honesty when every aspect of his presence in her life, even on the periphery, was a lie?

The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead.

I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Everything's filthy. But you know what? One day it's not gonna be here. So just be glad you know what life is. You're alive. Live.