3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!