The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her but it is always impossible to live without her.

The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.

I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

My first concert isn't that cool or ironic. I wish it had been like, "My first concert was the Backstreet Boys," but the first concert I went to, I think, was this band called The Samples.

I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?"

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.