Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!

We who live forever can know no courage, nor do we love enough to give our lives.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.

I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

Love is an impossible concept.