The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

We refused to be what the world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is going to be.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.

Some people get up in the morning, don't go to the gym, they go take a shower. Well, I go to the gym, and I get a shower too.

Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.