But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I'm not a big drinker. I don't really drink at all. But my dad and his pals will want to have a good swally because their nerves will be in some state, man!

A lot of superhero stuff now looks great but it's so difficult to read if you don't know how to read comics. I deliberately focus on the story.

In obstetrics and gynecology, the term abortionist is still a dirty word.

Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.