When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

Sometimes we have to break down to break through.

At chaos’ core lies the invitation.

If you want it badly enough, it’s yours.

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.

New insights from being present are a gift.

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

From the depths of your well, tap your will.

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you’ll lighten the weight of regret.

Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.

Promise me you'll stay and I promise to haunt you in the most heavenly way - with dark devotion and deep emotion.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a melody - you have to just grab it while it's there because it will go away.

Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?

I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.