Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita

After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let’s get it on.'

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.