The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

None of us are ordinary

I have the best job in the world. I wake up every morning energized at the thought of running Rio de Janeiro, the most exciting city on the planet.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory.

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.