We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.

A dog is the most joyful friend that you can have.

I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn’t a dream of flying. It’s a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind. I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.

All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.