Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in helping the audience feel what the character is thinking.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.