To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

On any given day, my daughters would snuggle in bed with my wife and me. We just hug and kiss each other. We laugh out loud and act completely silly. I stop and think to myself, "This is love."

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

Hurry up, please, its time.

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.