There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.

I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

We grew up in a very demanding environment. Dad expects us to prove ourselves... so my siblings and I worked hard to reach what we have today, and I guess we have to continue working hard to maintain it.

Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

I'm a Cleveland guy, man. I love this city.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era.

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business.

All actors have a significant amount of vanity about work, and necessarily so. Things they will do and won't do, and I've completely lost all of that. I don't care.

In Milan, everything is regulated by money. They say 'cappuccio' in bars instead of 'cappuccino' to save a syllable.

Traveling solo does not always mean you're alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.

Full-face helmets look stupid.

I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them. What I do is very different.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.