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.

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.)

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests.

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

The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.

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.