I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Nights

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Our military and the strength of our military and the strengthening of our military is a number one priority for the Trump administration.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.