You worry too much." "Because you worry not enough.

Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.

When you are made to pay for such insolence, I shall revel in your ruin.

Respect is both earned and lost.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.

I love doing club shows. I love that tight sound.

Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.

People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.