Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

The door to her heart was locked up tight, but he could still see a faint glow escaping through the keyhole.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.

You have a steady fella?” Sam asked after a bit. “No fella can hold me for long.” Sam gave her a sideways glance. “That a challenge?” “No. A statement of fact.

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.

I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.