A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Heart - FamilyBody - LazyMind - WorkSoul - Happy

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.

The only thing that ever came close to tugging my heart strings is music. I know this because that is the only time I've felt them move.

Better beware of the newly deadOf the white-handed ghostAnd the brightness of these lamps . . .

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish)