You got to get out into the field. Secondhand information in this world only takes you so far.

Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.

The disappearing time is the race of life

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

I don't like waking up. I feel like staying in bed usually, but I can't because I've got two kids standing next to my bed, just eager to live another day.

That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.