So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Life is a tragedy of nutrition

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.

I love Cheryl [Hines] so much and had so much fun with her. Off set we got on so well and would tell stories.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I just fought with all my heart. I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.