All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, “See what you can make when you loose the reins.

I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you’ve never dreamed of going.

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

Language is a virus from outer space

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

Cassandra,” he said, “I hope you know that poaching Muppets is illegal in this country.

If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.