Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

It's only out of reach when you choose to keep your feet flat on the floor.

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie.

I think we get the world we deserve. People who love get love back, and people who hate, or fear, they get those back too.

It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?

Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night!

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

As thou thinkest, so art thou.

Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.