One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.

Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.

The old are a regular subject for sympathy.

The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.

Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.

That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.

Juice is a poor man’s dessert.

Take time every day to do something silly.

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

Lying, like license, has its degrees.

Every show could be the last one.

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.