What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.

Let her go, ” Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.

The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.

It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.

Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

Our young men and women must be taught that through hard work, they can create opportunities for themselves and others.

Don't give yourself a limit and you may discover you don't have one.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital

Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.