Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't trifle me with details.

You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.

Sometimes I was so funny I couldn’t stand myself.

So we waited. I felt useless. I felt like I was in the way. I wished I had some nervous habits so I could indulge in them.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

I don't enjoy cooking when I'm high. And I don't want to be eating garbage because then I'll feel gross.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.