Deep fry that sucker! - Garfield

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

I never met a lasagna I didn't like

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

When all else fails, look cute.

But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...

Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.