You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself.

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.