Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

We should always hope and expect to see a brand new day filled with hope, love and joy.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Dreams never wear you down.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail

There are two types of pain. There is the pain of loss, which you can recover. And then, there is the pain of regret which never goes away.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.