Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

What's the problem?""You. All shirtless and stuff. My dragon won't let me fight you." Oh, God. It was so embarrassing even admitting it.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.

Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

To not care about how you look will make you look even more attractive.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.