The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

Pity and friendship seek different habitations.

If you don't think you're funny, no one else will.

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.

I don't believe in delivering four times a year and then also delivering things that are not season appropriate.