I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully.

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

This is a hell of a way to die.

I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

Life depends on change, and renewal.

Our time in this life is limited. And how we respect that time will create a greater possibility for fulfillment.