Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.

I'm happily single.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.

Train wreck, extremely fast train, but usually ends up derailed somehow.

What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.