Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint.

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.

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

We must yield to the power of words. Even God has chosen words to communicate with his creatures like us

I will not interfere with a male dragon while he is rutting.

We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.

There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. We're very closely related.

He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

Information is bad for knowledge.

We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.