I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.

Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup.

Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.

Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.

Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.

Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widowed me and murdered me and resurrected me whole a thousand times over with each hour.

No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.

Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death.

Stones Come And Go, The Big Fish Eat The Little Fish And I Keep On Battling.

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually it just feels like it works.

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.

I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.