The ritual was very important to me: cleaning the pot, rolling the pot.

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

In Hawaii they say, "aloha." That's a nice one, It means both "hello" and "good-bye" Which just goes to show, if you spend enough time in the sun you don't know whether you're coming or going.

More people write poetry than read it.

In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.