I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

There’s no good feeling like having those you love behind you”.

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

Change your direction and you will change your destiny

So you can look me in the eye and say that you are a president committed to cleaning up the environment?

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.