And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

As long as we love happiness will be our constant companion.

I assume these structures are made for siting?

Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.

I didn't really think of role in those terms, like 'quirky best friend', when I read the script and when I came to the project.

The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly.

Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

I don't like doing stand-up for little kids. It's not geared for that.