It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Art is about paying attention.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.

When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly

Maps codify the miracle of existence.

I said, "It really didn't feel like a choice. Where else is there to go?

So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.