The quiet times are the ones to hold on to.

How did my world get so small?

You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he’s living it—he wonders what that means.

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

I'm kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.