Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

Thought is the strongest thing we have.

I'm really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It's a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops.

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

We must empty purgatory with our prayers.

You can only find opportunities if you are looking for them.