College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.

The memories: they are the reality.

What he knows now is that guilt isn’t the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

His story is simple, because simple is always best.

Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat

The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

The worst job I ever had was as a forensicologist for the United Nations. One time I thought I'd come across the mass grave of a thousand snowmen, but it turns out it was just a field of carrots.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven.

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.