The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.

We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

I wanted her body and soul, but body first.

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.

Problems are there to be solved. How dull life would be without them.

People come in my house and say, “I like this.” I say, “Do you want it?” Isn’t that the Christian thing to do?

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

I'm a problem-solver, and you're welcome.

Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy

We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.

Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.