In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

... reason accepts no commandments.

You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.

She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.