What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

Keep negative people in your prayers, not in your life.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with

You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered.

I'm very emotional. That's why I wear shades a lot.

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.