If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

Why should things be easy to understand?

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

A screaming comes across the sky.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.

What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.

Yoga probably makes me a better person.

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.