Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.

Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his career by slowly & brutally strangling an innocent child?

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

Everybody got a deal, I did it without one

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

I have to be careful when I'm around sweets.

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.