Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.

Whether you believe in the Bible or not

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.