I realized someone else might tell you you're pretty. I'd do anything to keep you away from that person.

He's the boy who smokes Marlboro cigarettes and I'm the girl who makes theater puppets. Dreams and ashes—two things in the universe that should never meet because they are opposites, right?

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt.

A cat is always on the wrong side of any door.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track.

I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.