I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

The first lesson of branding: memorability. It's very difficult buying something you can't remember.

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.

I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

I love the art house, and when I say the art house, I don't just mean little, independent movies but movies that really aim to be about something and say something and I love those movies.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

Smoking means always having to say you're sorry.