But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

I wear dark sunglasses when I want my head to look more like a limousine.

The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.

A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.

Earrings are the same as sneezes: Two is okay, but ten in a row is annoying. If you have two then, God bless you.

The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older, ’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.

Everything is connected. We see the signs every moment. There are miracles waiting to happen!

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

Passion is contagioius.

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

Getting a lot of applause, announcing military reforms and upgrades. It's a really good speech [of Donald Trump].

One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.

If you haven't met Satan face to face, it's because you are running in the same direction.