Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

I'm lucky to be alive. It took three years of therapy to recover but I did it.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.