Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

People who lack self-regulation are often invasive of others. They can be perceived as being controlling, antagonistic, or even subversive.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

What better way to actually deal with L.A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself?

The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.