If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

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.

How did the war creep up? How did it gather itself together? What was it made from? What secrets, lies, betrayals? What loves and hatreds? What sums of money, what metals?

Laughter is the deadliest weapon of all: with laughter you can murder anything, even murder.

Truth is an acquired taste.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.