Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

I got a shotgun and a backhoe and no one looks under a septic tank for a dead body. (Bubba)

Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

Well, someone slap my butt and give me a hero cookie. (Nick)

The pie of success is undoubtedly big enough for everyone to work hard enough for it and get a hefty slice.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.