It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It's always coldest before the warm.

Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure.

it is not only what we have that enhance our dignity but what we do with what we have also magnifies our reputation to the highest level

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

I feel like any time I'm doing what I love, my big pay-off is watching somebody else be the receiver.

Can nothing change what is about to happen

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.