what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.

Xena, above all, remember your destiny. Remember it and fight, fight to come back. This world needs you. I need you.

My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time.

From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.