That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

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.

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

Four inch nails is more like it!

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

Resentment is like taking poison in hopes that your enemy will die.