Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don't lose our place in it.

I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.