Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.

I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

You know, I've lived a long time," he told me, massaging my calf more firmly now. "And I met a lot of people. But I ain't never met a woman made me want to beat her to death as often as you.

Forward, men, and mix with them.

When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted

My brother wasn't loved by my mother in the same way that I was.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.