Yotsuba: I’ll get revenge! … I’m going! Jumbo (in a suffering manner): Yotsuba… please, come back alive… Yotsuba (heroic): Alright. Even if I die… I’ll come back alive.—–Yotsuba!

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

I can't think of anything when I'm depressed. I just want to be alone.

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.

I'm sure God, wherever he is, wants to see us get along with one another and love one another.

I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.