The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.

I definitely love music that's coming out now, there's some really exciting fresh artists coming through which is really cool. I guess it's from old and new, where my influences are based.

What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.