Reality isn't what it used to be.

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.

Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.

...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.

There is a Pirate in every one of us

A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.