Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

Spending time with children is more important than spending money on children.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.

What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.