Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

A bird cannot fly with broken wings. Your heart cannot love without learning to heal.

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

I'm going to go out there and be who I am, and if you don't like it, then watch somebody else.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Especially from the legal end of things, the easiest thing for a big corporation or lawyer to say is no.

We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.