We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

Sick minds like to prohibit; healthy minds like to free!

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Anything you get into, you should research it and figure its roots and try to really be a real strong part of it.

Wisdom married to immortal verse.