When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

I have a lot of beliefs... and I live by none of them...

My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

Everything is amazing and nobody is happy

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.

We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.

Little Boy's performance is authentic, natural, moving & inspiring.

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find

I demand a lot of myself. I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself.