The body is a bundle of careful compromises.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.

Do not lose faith, it only lead to fear.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.

The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.

If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade.

I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves. There they go again. Jiggle. Jaggle. I'm a mess.

Every place, once unique, itself, is strangely shot through with radiations from every other place. ‘There’ was then; ‘here’ is now.

Gideon woke up ready to conquer the world, and he liked to start that domination with me. How lucky was I?