Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

While you cannot always change your situation, you can always change the way you respond to it.

The secret of happiness is to be loving, cheerful, and appreciative.

Try not to worry, for time is a great healer.' Such words were futile.

London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

They're my mistakes. ... I didn't pick the right guys.

A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.

I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.