Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than ever, Alice thought never being bothered was a very lazy way to love someone.

Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.

Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.

She'd decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay.

Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.

People don't always need a name.

I thank God for every experience.

I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like.

Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

Nature did not make me willowy.

I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.