I think that if you look at places like Amsterdam and places where pot is very legal they do well with it. There is nothing taken away from it and crime is very low and all that.

We've been duped into believing we don't have 25 minutes to have something change our life. We don't have 2. You know, we're tweeting. We're running around. We're 15 words or less.

You're going to find the good people and bad all around.

I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums that I have been lucky enough to, that's enough for me.

It seems to be the sense that once you throw guys in prison they're not going to come out. No, they're going to come out and, you know, what kind of beast have you created from that process?

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord will say go down below.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.

If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.

You end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.