Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Love and attraction is the magmatic language of the heart.

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

There is absolutely no shortcut to success other than paying the price that its prize demands.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Hillary Clinton has been outsmarted and outplayed worse than anybody I've ever seen in any government whatsoever.

It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.

Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.

We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

Don't throw the ball before you have it.