I can't 'make' you love me. But I can fill my pantry with your favourite snacks and offer you a weekly stipend of $75.

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

Cats probably wouldn't need 9 lives if they wore tiny little helmets and didn't smoke cigarettes.

It's probably not love if you don't press your face to the toilet seat after they've used it to feel their warmth.

If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.

I think your ambition for something changes as you go.

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.

It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.

It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up ,so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.

Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?

And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.