We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

Throw me to the wolves &I'll return leading the pack

After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.