There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

He reminds me of how one would feel when they think of home. A place where you eventually have to find your way back to, because it is where you are safe and loved.

Did he dare trust this insane boy?

Do you often sleep tied to the bed?

Russians don't complain, usually.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I'd go blue in the face.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

A whole other generation is coming up to me now - anywhere from 8 to 22 years old - wanting me to sign autographs. They think Journey was awesome.