My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.

The songs of separation Are not always full of painOften they talk of the fondnessThat flows in the lovers’ veins…

Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

No good end exists for any dictator!

I do have to ask the following: I feel very bad about that [spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country ].

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

Common sense ain't common.