"To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise."

"The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories."

"Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!"

"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible."

"If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!"

"California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death."

"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."

"Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow."

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

"If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles."

"I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."

"The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind."