When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

Change is such hard work.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

Everyone, deep in their hears, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.

The Web is cool, but the library is magic.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.

Like everyone else, I want to sleep with Leonardo DiCaprio.

As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.