No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

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.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

A girl can have the face of an angel but have a horrid sort of heart.

I appreciate anything thoughtful.

I dont wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.