Everyone deserves a shot....and some deserve to be shot.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.

Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others it is the privilege of contributing to the betterment of others.

Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we'll kill everything.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

The one thing I like about the religion is, I'm never at a loss to do something. No matter what happens in my life, there is something for me to do so I don't feel as though I have lost control.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.