The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

I write down everything I eat and count the calories so I don't go over a certain amount. Everyone should do this if they are dieting or not. I think we all would be shocked by it.