Wrists are made for bracelets, not cutting.

A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing.

In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs.

Never take counsel of your fears.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

Don't hang up until the client either buys or dies.

Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.