Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything?

The preachers preach and the sinners sin sincerely.

Cats will be cats.

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

One cannot live on dreams, but neither can one live without them.

It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.

…she simply accepted it for what it was — a normal, average, everyday kind of miracle.

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

How much more money do we have to waste, how many more families have to be destroyed, how many more people have to be killed before you summon the courage to tell the truth to the American people?

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.