I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

I'm Allen Walker!"My life....is over...I'm going to die....

Waiting was sometimes the most proactive thing a person could do.

Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.

I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I'll do it.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

According to CNN, Donald Rumsfeld said the war in Iraq did not go according to plan. And President Bush said, 'What? We had a plan?'

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

Sometimes divulging your vulnerabilities without any kind of filter can make you more human, but then again, it can also provide material that can be used against you.

I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.