The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed.

I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it.

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

Every broken lunatic needed a theme song.

Well, who’s real? The living or the dead?

The rain fell like dead bullets.

Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

Block out all the negative energy, and just love.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

My last coherent thought, as Lucas took his time kissing and touching every part of me he could reach and my body arched into his, was: oh... so this is what all the fuss is about.