But to dream you first must know the sleep of men. You do not smell of sleep, you do not smell of dreams. You smell of an eternity born of unremembered beginning.

It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, because anyone who knows you knows what a great guy you are on the inside. You're honest and true.

Being brave is only standing up when you're afraid.

I spy the eyes before me to be those of the celestial warrior the legends of men call Michael.

It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ

I would say some of the food I talk about that I really enjoy, like cake and bacon, I eat a lot less than I portray in my act. But that stuff that I dislike, it's pretty sincere.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.