The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.

I quit politics because I hated it.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.