When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Behind every problem in life lies a purpose.

Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.

The failure of the church is a result of not equipping believers with mindset to extend God’s kingdom

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

You can expect what you inspect.