Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.

They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

No one is any one thing.