It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

Não estatize meus sentimentos. Pra seu governo, o meu estado é independente.

That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.

Hillary Clinton'll be Madam President and we'll be in the White House.

I know how to really work to get new jobs and to get exports that helped to create more new jobs.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

The worst thing about our problems is that nobody has nothing to do with them

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.