Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

I live in an ocean of smell…

The very air they breathed was almost a juice.

…the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

There is neither replay of time nor life.

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.