You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

To welcome the present with an open hand and heart, let your past go with appreciation.

Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.

When we overemphasise miracles we underplay values.

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.

What seems new is only new to us.