Pain, Rhuan decided, did not simply hurt. Pain also exhausted a person, sapped his soul, thinned his spirit. Worse, pain was tedious.

Followers can't give new ideas and never be a leader.

The present moment is the definition of eternity. It has never not been the present moment. This isn't scriptural or unscriptural - it is merely a logical fact.

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.