People shouldn't take my lack of interest in what they're saying personally. I don't really care about what I'm saying most of the time.

If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works.

Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.

If space suits looked less like marshmallows, I'd be more interested in going to the moon.

Cupcakes are the tattooed brunette chick of the baked goods world.

Love is a crocodile just above the water line waiting to attack the innocent herbivore of my freedom.

Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal.

Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

Every time I see a happy couple I want to give them a polygraph.

Insecurity is like herpes. It's not going anywhere. May as well learn to laugh at it.

Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.

The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

35mm film isn't ticking away so it's subconscious - performances are allowed to breathe in a much more real way I think.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Never waste a good crisis...Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.