The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.