The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

Make personal growth a daily priority.

This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are.

It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.

If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.

If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.