The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

These hips are mighty hips.These hips are magic hips.I have known themto put a spell on a manand spin him like a top

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.

...be more guided by hope than fear.

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.