Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

Your imaginations are not beyond creation, only God's imaginations exceeds all creation.

Trust yourself, you will start to trust others.

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

Today when someone shakes hands with Modi & looks into his eyes, they don't see Modi, but the reflection of 125 crore Indians.

You have to own your mistakes, otherwise your mistakes own you