Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

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.

Your ego does not need to be crushed, it needs to be redeemed.

There is no safer vault than our minds.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

Look up there! That's the sky!

Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.