If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

A good friend enjoys with you, a best friend cries with you.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.

Even the presence of my kids cannot, during those writing hours, disturb me. Unless there's a bone sticking out of their arm, I'm not interested.

I had a great childhood. I had such fun.

I live my life in gratitude.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I know not how to abstain from reading.