I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus

Fate isn't set in stone. Free will can change everything

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

It's the job of the young to push the societal envelope.

Push me and I will. I’ll get punished, but you’ll still be dead.

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.