It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.

Oh Mom, it turns out my knight in shining armor was just some liar in tinfoil.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

Nothing really frustrates me to the point of hatred. It's not the worth the energy.

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.

I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.