Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the mirror.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

Earth's crammed with Heaven And every common bush afire with God.

God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.

We encourage one another in mediocrity.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"

Lead­ers live by choice, not acci­dent.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.