I always feel uncomfortable at parties, and I'm often nervous when talking to strangers. I don't think this makes me feel special. Maybe everybody feels this way.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

You should know how great things were before you. Even so, they're better still today. I can't think of who I was before you ruined everything in the nicest way.

Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.

I'm just a dude and I feel like being completely isolated would be kind of a drag. I really do get a lot of energy from feedback from fans. People create music videos and artwork for my music.

It's weird but it's amazing, and it's great to know people are thinking about you. It's a huge ego boost and anyone that says they don't love that is lying.

I'm a professional Jonathan Coulton. It's partially ego, to be completely honest: It feels great to have people adoring you in that way.

For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.