Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.

I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

After all these years, his best friend is malaria.Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.

Joblessness is an opportunity to fulfill purpose

But I must warn you, Miss Hathaway ... life has a way of fouling up our plans. I speak from experience.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.