A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

It's always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom.

My mom and I always had a great bond. It was always a natural friendship bond since early on. My mom was 18 when she had me.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Act on your inner guidance, and give up your need for 'proof' that your inner guidance is authentic. The more you ask for proof, the less likely you are to receive any.

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.