I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.

Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.