Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

Your present circumstances may seem limited, but you are never limited by your present circumstances.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons]

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.

Everywhere I go I'm always spotted on the streets.

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

I just want Aerosmith to always give me a hard-on, that's all I ever ask for, for it to be the most special thing in my life. As long as I look at it through those eyes, it will always be that way.