I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber Toes.' I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.