I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

I never really said I wanted to be a TV star, when I was a kid.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive