Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity.

One man’s weakness is another man’s mercy.

Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.

In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.

Dream big

For balance to be restored, lessons must be learned

I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.

Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.