Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.