Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.

Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

Some people just don’t appreciate having a dog around. It’s sad to think there are people like that. I knew Gloria was that way—maybe that’s why she could never be truly happy.

Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.

Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.

Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.

I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, "Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth.

Not everything that can be counted counts.Not everything that counts can be counted.

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.

You can’t bring justice with a kind heart

Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.

I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.