[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.