Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

Better to suffer than to die.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

I'm happy and thankful that people are messing with the Dolla $ign.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.