The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.

To feel alone is to be alone.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

With writing, we have second chances.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

​Pass on bravery and wisdom to the future generations, not some ragged traditions and baseless cowardice.

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

Most people don't get to laugh, be free, dance, be surrounded by this energy. It's important to remind people to take that home. I want the world to start shifting [to] a more positive energy.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

NRA - Nuts Running America.

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.

I've spent my life making blunders.

When you retire for the night offer grateful homage to God for being with you all day long.

Don't stop believing in miracles.