Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.