The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Trust comes through honesty.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.

Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness.

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

Children notice things first, people later.

The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.