There is something gratuitous about creation, an unnecessary abundance of beauty, and through its blossoms and pleasures we can revel in the sheer largesse of the Father.

Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world.

Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Battles I lose none I make crews run I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one

She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

Messi is the Best. There must be life out there somewhere, on some other planet. Because he is too good and we are just too bad for him.

But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.