Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh, ' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.

Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be--it is everything.

A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.