Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

A man of courage must first conquer himself.

Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least.

I wonder if life is a fairy tale!

The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).

What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

Everything about my life is about winning a national championship

I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.