The ocean drummed as loud as pulsating blood, eroding the sand, rushing the beach as if it had a point to prove. And like many things, it receded, was gone, and was replaced anew.

Knowing too much had turned him into something else, and he wasn't sure he liked this newer him, although he felt he could not stop being this other him, darker.

Warren was nearly hoarse as he wiped the tears from his eyes and face. "I need to change. I need to protect my family. I need to earn who I am.

No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else.

Life is a stage: perform your masterpiece.

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

If you're in a fair fight, you didn't plan it properly.

I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

This Osama bin Laden guy, spoiled rich kid worth $300M. I have three words for this guy: Anna Nicole Smith. We send her over there, she'll get his money, he'll be dead in a week.

Pause and remember - If you empty yourself of yesterday's sorrows, you will have much more room for today's joy.

So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"