I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

Because when you’re laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy.

If you stop giving, you stop the stream of abundance.

It's my fault but the most violating thing I've felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catchy gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts.

Trust the horticulturalist: California's genius may be green, but it's underlying beauty is brown.

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.

Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.

My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.