Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

four meta-movements that separately and together are redefining the American dream: living with limits, embracing diversity, looking inward, and demanding authenticity.

Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd write comic books, because it's what I like doing.

Politics is everywhere. It's in your shirt, it's in your pants. It's everywhere.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.