Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.

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.

Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.

A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint

I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.

roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.