What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

To get where you want to go, you can't only do what you like.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

We never look at people with the eye of God instead we look at them from their past, what they did wrong.

...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009

India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

Would you know what money is, go borrow some.

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.

While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.