There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

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.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying.

An altar is like an airport where spirits take off and land

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Don't judge me, I'm not a book.

What I was interested in [Fruitvale Station ] was one guy and his life and how that related to all of our lives and the fact that it ended unnecessarily and what the fallout from that was.

Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it.

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.