In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.

Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?

Any day stands equal to the rest.

Spreading rumours is our national past time

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

The internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.

Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.