It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not.Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it. It shouldn't need a recipe.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?