The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.

A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.

Still, he couldn’t reconcile with the way he felt every time their eyes met, a feeling he had never forgotten that resonated with his very being.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.