The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.

Love gives you knees to crawl, feet to run, legs to sprint, and wings to soar.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.

Everybody's got a story that could break your heart.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy

I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.