There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by him. Their colors are blazing and pure as angels' eyes.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

The things that you consistently think of yourself and your abilities will always overwrite the things that people say about you.

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.

The worst thing about losing this job: I’m no longer covered by NBC. I have to sign up for ObamaCare.

By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.

I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear

. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].