Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.

I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?