When life gives you lemons, find a friend whose life has given them tequila and have a party.

...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.