You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

I've always been attracted to guys with big brains.

It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

You are the average of your five closest associates.

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.

My father always said, 'It ain't bragging if it's true.'