Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.