Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.

[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.

...above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.

A little bait catches a large fish.

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

I mean, what's eleven million people now days?