It's nice when they notice the deep voice from across the house, and they know it's papa. They know it's Dad.

When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.