...at it's best fiction is medicine.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found.

We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Do the uncomfortable and it will widen your circle of comfort.

I think you’re going to see tech bringing efficiencies to businesses that aren’t pure tech.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem.

I've been on every diet in the world. I've been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate.