The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.