The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.

I saw Danny Kaye in a movie, and he was doing voices and faces on that big, big screen and making whole audiences laugh. It was just an instant hookup.

Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.