The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world.

You can't fail when it is not an option.

I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

There are a lot of things that are done in the federal government that are done because Washington did them.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.

A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if all things are going well then you can enjoy yourself.