I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

A great idea is not enough.