Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

Obviously [Can't Hardly Wait] wasn't in American Pie, which was a movie about some teenage boys.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld.

I think you have different soulmates throughout your life.

Libraries...house our dreams.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.