You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

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.

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.

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.

It isn't the amount you spend today, it's what you want to invest in for the future!

It's one thing to know the things you seek are within your reach, but another to confidently and courageously move forward and seize them.

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

Be brave, be victorious

If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.