No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

A person must try to worry about the things that aren't important, so that he won't worry about the things that are.

would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

No objects of value ... are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

Baptism in the Holy Spirit belongs to them that believe and are not of this world

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.