An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.

No matter what the odds say, be even with who you truly are.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.