Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

There's two to wash, two to dry; There's two who argue, two who cry; There's two to kiss, two to hug; and best of all, there's two to love!

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

There is no unique picture of reality.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.