No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

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.

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.

You know what awareness is only when you are aware. Awareness is the perception of your presence in the now.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine." (Damon to Serena)

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.