It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

If love is blind why is lingerie so popular?

Never retract never explain never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.

These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.