Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

You sorta lose the fear of failure when everyone thinks you already gave it your best shot and blew it.

Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.