Art: to nudge truth along a little.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.

If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.

I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.

When I walk down the boardwalk,people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles