"It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either."

"When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person."

"I was the class innuendist."

"I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was."

"I am best viewed from a distance."

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

"It is a profound truth that true authority is measured not by subjugation, but by the empowerment of others."

"It is a radiant truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience."