I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

I don't believe it pays to be a great author.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

Humility makes me cry! There isn't a bigger asset than it.

Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

Had a filling done yesterday with no freezing, natural materials, essentials oils, and homeopathic remedies. We absolutely must push for more holistic biological dentistry.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.