Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.