We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.

You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.

And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better than smoking, that's what I say. It's the new, lung-safe cigarette.

It was ridiculous, at times, how many tears one body could produce.

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

He who can traverse the pit of darkness will emerge a stronger, more compassionate person.

If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.