I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

Thor is a legend after all and if you're getting a legend back, you've got to get the Darby in.