I'm going to live to be twenty-five, ' she said, 'then die.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met.""You've met God?""Certainly. I telephone Him every night.

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.

When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others.

Always write to change society for the better.You will go, but it will live as a treasure forever.

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use you don't have cities.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.