It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.