Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

You only live once, right?""Not true, " Quinn said, "you live every day. You only die once.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.