Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

Hoboken is a neat place.

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

Today is the yesterday you won't remember tomorrow.

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention...

Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.

The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.

It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.