Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.

The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival

Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere

We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.

... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames

Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real.

We are troubled, but we have hope and tremendous promise.

No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.