Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.

At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls, you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.

Do you know the sums that I do?” “I count my blessings.

Leaders who nurture followers to be leaders, keep leading even when they retire, and they keep winning the admiration of leading leaders

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with "No Cure For Cancer."

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.