my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

The best things arrive on time.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

A friend once told me "Michael, if you were a villain, you'd be the Joker, " to which I replied, "no, dear friend - if the Joker were a villain, he'd be ME.

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.