There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.
I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.
Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?
Nobody, said Humboldt, had a destiny. One simply decided to feign one until one came to believe in it oneself. But so many things didn't fit in with it, one had to really force oneself.
I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.
People mess up, you know? But you can’t see past it. It’s like you choose one thing about them—the worst thing—and say, ‘That’s who they are,’ and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing the...
One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It’s like a mirror is being held up just about an inch to your face.
If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirr...
History is just one fucking thing after another.
Study is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
Thoughts Become Things... Choose The Good Ones!
I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes.
One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.
But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.
I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.
