Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

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.

If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.

What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love.

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.