Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Johannes Tauler

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

Graham Kerr

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Doug Coupland

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James A. Baldwin

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Tadao Ando

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

E. F. Schumacher

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

James Garfield

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Lord Chesterfield

Up above, what wind walks! What lovely behavior of silk-sack clouds has wilder, wilful, wavier, meal-drift molded over and melted across skies!

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Armistead Maupin