Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!

The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour. If she keeps working, keeps doing the right things, there's no reason why she shouldn't be out here.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.

Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?