I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

I wear dark sunglasses when I want my head to look more like a limousine.

The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.

A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.

Earrings are the same as sneezes: Two is okay, but ten in a row is annoying. If you have two then, God bless you.

The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...

Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

L.A. kind of scares me.

We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.

rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.

Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.

The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.