Electricity is really just organized lightning

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.

Being happy on seeing others happy is happiness multiplied.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks

America, fortunately or unfortunately, is very polarized right now. People fall into their different camps. And people are, are concerned. And they, they want to see change.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.