Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

It is preposterous to think that we are peaceful when every day we spend more money to built killing machine than to educate our children.

Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.

You know Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head." - spoken by my mother after I eloped with a guy I'd known for about a month, when I was 18 years old!

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

I'm like every waitress in every diner I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like the cold metal that inhabited my mouth for 2 years.

Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

My voice is clotted with unshed tears.

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.