Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

You should shine with all of your light all the time.

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

When God begins his good works it is difficult to hold on, if you are in a passive position

The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly.

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.