Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Pity the cat, thinks the writer, for I live as many lives as I can imagine.

Objects moving in a circle are under the influence of changing force.

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Mornings and afternoons are my family time and I'm lucky that I can drop the kids off at school, I don't have to be at the office or anything.

Children that play outside develop better problem solving skills and have a stronger ability to work within a group.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.