Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.

God didn't send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride.

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

Supervision is an opportunity to bring someone back to their own mind, to show them how good they can be.

Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.

How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.