The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.

It is always now

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

I want to be like Ben Folds. Everyone loves his music, but you could be sitting next to him on a plane and never know it." "I would much rather people know my music than know my name.

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from audiences, I don't like for them to think they know what's happening next.

The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.

I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.