Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

I'll take any way to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy I'll go in as a batboy.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.

When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.

In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.