Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

Use the smallest word that does the job.

It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women, they were not sharing my solitude.

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

I'm here today because I hated everything else.

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

I’d love to be faster. Physically I’m limited, but I’ve survived by using my head.