Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.