Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

take what you can from your dreamsMake them real as anythingIt takes the work out of the courage

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to sun and wind. And it's entirely a rate problem at this point.

The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

See every crack, every detail. I learned to really see and not just look at my business.

Even a family needs to work as a team.

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.