There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully.