The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?

Even when the odds are overwhelming, you can believe in God and His promises.

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.

John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.

You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it.

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.