How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

Great leaders rally people to a better future.

If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he’d come. I could do a favor for the president

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

I have rules for life, but not for love. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it

I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.