This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

I coach hockey players—some of them just happen to be girls. When I’m coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can’t tell the difference. They are just playing hockey.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.