Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.

I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.

I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.