I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

I can't not put humor in a book.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I'm no one's pet, and I intend to be an independent voice in the U.S. Senate.

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.

The most fruitful and the most joy-filled Christians are the most pruned Christians.

When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.