All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.

Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.

The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.("For The Rest Of Her Life")

That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

A good goal is one that is important and beautiful.

In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, we're limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.