People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

When life asks you a question, you learn. When you ask a question from life, you cry.

When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.

I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.