The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Only.. I want to do die as myself

God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be dumb.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency.

It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.