You never know when you're making a memory.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

I do have nightmares. So what? I wouldn’t trade places with any of the f**kers I killed. Am I afraid of Hell? No. I’ve been. It’s worse than advertised but not as bad as imagined. ~ Brandon Hull

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

Voters, I think, in many ways, have begun to really reject the system.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.