All I can do now is cover the mirrors.

Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

Whatever is contained must be released.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

My crotch is like scrambled eggs

I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.

I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.

I don't see what the point is in growing up.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.