They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

I'm sorry, " he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that.

So what’s your story?” Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. “My story?”“Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire.

In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

See now the power of truth.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.