But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It’s all in the draw and how you play it.

My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to let myself want him

And I decided I'd rather love too much than not at all.

Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison.

We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.

I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's usually dangerous because I'm writin' and drivin' at the same time.

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.