Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

People die. Love endures.

You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.

How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.

The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us.

I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.

He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.

The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth.

Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.

I cannot remember you when the rain flows down -I cannot remember youandmy heart begins to drown ...

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

I was next to Bobby [Kennedy] when he was shot. It was hideous. Part of me wanted to crawl away. I couldn't... I still wake up in the night and think about it. I even remember the f-stop. It was 1.4.

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

What your mind cannot master it will eventually resent.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.