Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Chasing your dreams is like running a race in the dark, you may quit disheartened, not knowing you were one step away from the finish line.

One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!

My soul is all an aching void.

I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.

Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

A number of things in Dhalgren are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.