Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.

The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in.

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.