I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.

It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.

The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.