It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss.

Inside, I screamed for help but the words knew better than to escape my lips.

He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.

VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers.

We were all pawns easily discarded at the whims of monsters, some of whom were younger than me.

I love when my mind focuses on how wonderful I am and lets all the other (less generous) thoughts recede into the background. You're wonderful too, by the way. Way wonderful.

It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience.

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before.

When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.