Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

I believe in the separation of church and planet.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

Every creature is a word of God.

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

A vida sem luta é um mar morto no centro do organismo universal.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.

I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.

We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.