What you become is what counts.

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Begin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

Meditators dream of attaining the single-pointed focus that young children experience naturally when they play. Spiritual aspirants long for the rapture that defines moments of pure delight.

You move forward because you have to. Life doesn't stand still. It makes you move on until you want to move on, you know? It'll run you over if you don't move.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Youth is wholly experimental.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.