We want playmates we can own.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

Your calling is buried in your background and life experience

Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't have it all - they just don't have the juice to figure it out.

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint

Christian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn't redeemed merely by the fact that it's Christian.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!