You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

The difference between what you expect and what you get is the problem.

Happiness and joy are both decisions and choices you must make every day.

Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!

I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

Don't wait for someone to enable you to make something.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.