I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

Sin lies at the heart of chaotic world conditions as we now know them and as they have existed through the centuries.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big.

I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan