You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.

Balance and fullness exists in the polarity of all things.

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Happiness is a warm gun.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.

To love another person is to help them love God.

I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.

I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.