People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.

Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

You need to be comfortable to make others uncomfortable.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.

The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing.

All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.