It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

In this universe, all we perceive is a virtual reality created by the neurons.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they’ve already done and go farther than they’ve reached.

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

Love is a beautiful feeling.

I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.

Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.