A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.

The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.

Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.