I didn’t thank God. Doctor Carter, do you think everything happened the way it did because I forgot to thank God? Do you think that God might somehow be as petty as I am?

At the end of our lives, when our bodies are about to be laid in Mother Earth, we will know for ourselves whether we are a Two-Legged being full of light or a Two-Legged being full of darkness.

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

Their offense is shakier than Katherine Hepburn after an all-night espresso bender at Starbucks.

Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy.

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?