As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

How can you cry for others’ struggles when you are facilitating mayhem in your own land?

Not every child takes instantly to books like a duck to water, but I don’t believe there are children who hate books. There are just children who haven’t yet found the right books for them.

Life can be absolutely phenomenal, and it should be, and it will be, when you start using the secret.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Let no act be done without purpose.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Then why can’t I bully you into procreating? (Wulf) See! I’m the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

My first album came out in 1979.

I never thought I would go into the dance charts.