Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.

I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.

Meditation creates harmony in the midst of chaos in my inner world and outer reality.

I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.

Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

It's why I left TV. I couldn't handle everybody telling me what I should have done after they watched me on TV. I said, "You're not even watching what I think I'm doing, so I'm out."