“There are more of them than us.”

“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”

“Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”

“One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”

“The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.”

“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.”

“Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude--they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race.”