The easy truth is as much a lie as any.

There are many dreams in a lifetime – dreams that flourish or flounder for reasons much more complex than can be pinned down to any one person or situation.

It’s true: A slice of pound cake does wonders to thaw the coldest of days.

The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had.

There’s no such thing as half family.

[Voters] are trying to make up their mind on who has a better plan for the economy, whose presidency would more positively impact my life?

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.

Just so you know: if a rakshasa shows up, I left my sword in the car.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.