The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself even a little is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.

O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

Spring can still be felteven if you lay under the bedFrozen heart can meltin coldness when wintry love misled

You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief

I couldn't stop throwing theories at [Jimmi Simpson], and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about the show [Westworlds]. I promise."

My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

I buy myself a gift every year, so this year I bought everything I wanted.

I love eating at Sonic with my family in Oklahoma. And no, I'm not kidding.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet.