Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

The market is the only critic that matters.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

Osama bin Laden... lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide.

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

I've always been into leopard print. No joke, when I was 14 years old I wanted my entire room to be covered in it.

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.