It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.- Breeze

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

You have to learn to hallucinate.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

Every couple years when Mr. [Hugh] Hefner would call, I would very graciously decline, because my mom would kill me, and I thought it was more mysterious keeping my clothes on.

I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!

...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.