Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Everything we do is practice for something greater than where we currently are.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

At any given time, there are ideas and images that can only be communicated indirectly.

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated.

My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.