We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

If you give up, you reward failure.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Got demons on both shoulders.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

Forgiving makes me feel free and light. I forgive everyone, including myself

Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to