You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.

If we adopted Jack, " I quip, "we'd have to give him combat pay for an allowance

Consider this a one-thousand horsepower divorce, sweetheart

How come they get to be gray-haired and still in love with each other, while Lilly tears out what's left of my heart and dumps it into her Jill-The-Ripper shredder?

My turner Mah'Lor is with me forever as well. At least his head is.

Since I can't turn into a bat and fly, I'll still need my bus pass

I floor the gas pedal. The Sonoramic Commando V-8 growls like an angry tiger and leapfrogs us ahead of the traffic.

Centuries of perfectly-pitched heartbreak resound through Les' microphone as Stella and I embrace in a slow dance.

Perhaps true weakness is weakness of the spirit

The honester the man the worse luck.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

I'm only human, and I bleed when I fall down.

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.