I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.

What do you want in life?

The fire in you burns as fiercely as it did when I first met you.

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-American.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.