"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

"If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween."

"If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window."

"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

"Love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."

"A courageous heart knows that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."