Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

I only found myself when I stopped looking. . .

It's hard getting momentum riding a bike up hill... It's hard getting momentum when you're dragging around all the pain from your past.

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

I don't know how people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.

Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.