The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

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

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.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Those who mock at you, shall one day worship you.

We should resume our language to science and leave the rest to silence

That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

No star is ever lost we once have seen We always may be what we might have been.

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.