You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

All language is a popularity contest.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

The depth of my feelings is proportional to the depth of the color.

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

The news can be poison to your soul, don't let it kill your joy, be compassionate but not consumed. Be empathetic not enraged.

There are many places where we need to fight important battles to make sure that customers have access to solar.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

You can't touch music, but music can touch you