The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

Who would I be without God's daily guidance and protection? Absolutely a lost soul. That being said, in God I will forever trust.

I'm just funnier when I'm drunk. Not falling-down drunk, just drunk enough to lose the self-doubt.

What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

Angie, I've seen my mom wrestle two cops to the ground with a taser dart in her neck, and you cry when your shoes pinch. Good luck, Bambi!

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.

If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.