Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

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.

We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can’t feed the living.

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?