Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

You only live once, so enjoy the ride.

A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.

Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring U.N. peacekeepers in, and bring U.S. troops home.

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

Such joy ambition finds.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

The way I feel about you will never change. Of course I love you—and there's nothing you can do about it!” “That's all I needed to hear.