I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

She couldn't make it untrue.

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

It was and is always nice to work with the kids.

We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.