Sometimes in my tent, last at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping, against the sky.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

Someone said that once a family producers a writer, that's the end of the family.

Build a brand or a brand will build you.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

When I was 19, I picked up an old, tiny, automatic Yashica camera and I just started shooting. We didn't have iPhones back then, we didn't even have cell phones. I loved having a camera in my hand.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it.

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf