How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

The first step to success it's to imagine it

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.

People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be stupid is a powerful force

Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

I'm really interested in starting to write my own songs. I never really did, but hopefully I will because I'm so interested in writing my own songs.

Chicago is like a warzone. Chicago is worse than some of the people that you report, in some of the places that you report about every night, in the Middle East.

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"

God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.