we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

You must learn to enjoy life and have fun doing what you love

Welcome to the modern world.Here, emotions hide behind emoticons

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise.

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.