You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.

The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll take the hits as they come.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

Today the brightest light in the Scottish political firmament has gone out.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.