...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.

It’s possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when they do it?

You cannot always run at your best.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.

On our first tour we just went full on, drinking too much and smoking too much before the shows. But it's a learning curve. We now know our limits.

I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

My father was a lawyer.

When we fall in love and we have a first kiss with someone, we never ever imagine that someday that could be a last kiss.