When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain

I gave him my heart without thinking how it would feel if he returned it.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.

People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

The cross is the ladder to heaven.