The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.

In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.

Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.

i think you will be tired of tellingme & my dreams to go to hell

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

Don't go overboard with too many accessories and too many different things.

We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly.

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.

You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay.

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.