Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

He suggested devils, skulls, harsh masculine drawings. This thing was…heart poundingly good. She wanted to pluck it, and bury her face in it, and keep it in a vase by her bedside.

Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble.

Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.

Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

Robbing someone of their smile and putting it on your own face doesn't make you happy.

I'm not the worlds biggest remake guy, meaning finding titles and saying, "Hey it's got some brand awareness, let's just make a movie."