We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.