The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind. [Thorn]

I look at the lyrics, and if that's something honest for me at the moment, I'll sing it.