Is there a separation between body and mind, and if so which is it better to have?

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name

This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess that’s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.

I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.

I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it.