Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.

The people you are closest to tend to be able to hurt you the most - that is why heartbreak is so hard to deal with, why death is so painful, and why fights can destroy things that matter.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable."

I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.