In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come.

Real Humility is when I can treat a minister, a prince, a priest, a teacher, a waiter and a janitor with the same and equal respect.

Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.