The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.

Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you.

A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday.

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]

There's no political point worth my son's life.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

I'm a beast when it comes to anything. I believe in givin' one-hundred-ten percent, anything I do.