If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

From cradle to grave, Talal sprinted through life.I never did see a life extinguished so abruptly.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.