You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.

The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.

I want to love and be loved.... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

I look to you, O GOD.

Little tape recorders, that's what kids are, Cat thought. If you want to find out what your husband is saying behind your back, play Barbie with your daughter.

Loving a warrior is hard. Dying in the line of duty is an honor to them. They would rather take that road than to dishonor their sacred oath

No pleasure without pain.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

A lot of things in life seem impossible until it's done. Don't be afraid to attempt the impossible.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.