Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

The most liberating feeling in the world is to not give the negative opinions of others any traction.

I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.

The biggest dog has been a pup.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

He hadn't told me everything, but I'd left him for dead. I guess we were just about even...

They say that guys who like chick flicks tend to do a little better with the ladies. Well, I INVENTED the chick flick, so you can pretty much guess where that leaves me.