What we seek is never what we seek. That is why we may not recognize that we've found what we truly yearn for.

Time is the skin of existence.

Ambition strives. At first for goals, until it reaches them. Then for more, because it's insatiable.

Ambition's ambition is immortality. To create an eternal legacy.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

Not for myself I make this prayer But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

Why is the AMA for 'Obamacare'? If this is going to hurt doctors, why are they for 'Obamacare'?

Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain.

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.

Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?