Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort

I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

every smart / Is eased in telling.

The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.