A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.

Children see magic because they look for it.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".

The medium obscured the message.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

I don't need to be everywhere because my art pieces can talk for themselves.

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.