If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

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.

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.