[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of.

I can't help it. I'm just a big gasbag. I still got leftover barbeque gas." She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long far. "Excuse me, " she said.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

Life can't always be good, and life can't always be bad. That just holds true. I've learned a lot from that statement, and I think about it, all the time.