If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.

I think if everyone is clean, then who cares about how you're tested?

Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.

I've been so blessed and so lucky to be a part of great shows like 'Chuck' and projects 'Daybreak.'

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.