Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Life is the game that must be played.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

It angers me that a timed, planned and paid smearing campaign is run against me in the press.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.

I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken.