You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of the songs Kurt Cobain wrote.

You really get tired in one area of your life, and then you start questioning your whole existence.

Anytime you start getting a real tangible relationship with something that's been blown up to a legendary status, you just realize that every part of it is just people getting ahead.

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.

Happiness is not a limited resource. So help yourself, and there will be plenty left for everyone else.

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

I had these slinky eyes and a sense of humor.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.