No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Most of the hip-hop people are very straight.

I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.

I am very, very, very concerned about the United States getting drawn into an endless war, year after year after year.

I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

You decide which ones makes more sense, which is more practical and more logical to accept.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

One of the things I've realized is how portable God is. No really, He's everywhere!