In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.

We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that.

Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.

We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

Health care - we need health care for our people. We need a good - Obamacare is a disaster.

Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about consistency! Consistency!

Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.