I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.

One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

You're only responsible for being honest, not for someone else's reaction to your honesty.

I'm an open book. But some of the pages are stuck together.

Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.

Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?

When they have opened you up like a ripe fruit they devour your juices and then spit you out like the seed.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

It is a blessed bliss to live to be old.

I love you, I’ve loved you for years and I’ll love you for years more. It’s not something I can fight, it’s not something I want to fight.

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

I can't dance on ice, because I'm like Bambi on ice.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

There must be a God, because I don't know how things work.

Shoob-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.

Playtime and nature time are important not only for learning but also for health and development.