You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.

Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.

Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er.

So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

She's so hairy - when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.