Your Eyes Travel a Thousand Miles, But your mind will travel even more

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

I'd rather make music than tour.

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

Weather tonight: dark. Turning partly light by morning.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

My roommate says, "I'm going to take a shower and shave. Does anyone need to use the bathroom?" It's like some weird quiz where he reveals the answer first.