The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

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.

When Passion meets Inspiration, an Obsession is born.

You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-""I think as a human being, " she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.

Comedians love people to point and laugh at them, even if they are not funny, naturists don't, no matter how funny they are.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

Time itself is the solution to all problems.

Worship is the grand theme of the Bible.