You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

God you are so good, you gives what is needful.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

This is how God made me. You are how God made you. All God's chillun are made how God made 'em. You think God made a mistake, take it up with Him.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

The world is a safer and better place that the United States is the strongest military power on earth. The stronger you are, the less likelihood you'll ever have to use it.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.