His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

When no one cares about you, just look at yourself in mirror

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops.

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.

If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.