Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to live…to survive...clawed at her soul.

Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage.

Film makes me feel less alone in the world.

Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Everything is going to be right at the end. If it's not right, then it is not the end.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.