"OMG I saw you last night eating sour cream on my TV! How fabulous! I love sour cream too and can I tell you, you made wanna go run and get some!!" ~Noseph Trinh, via email regarding my Daisy Sour Cream commercial

"Every part of you has a secret language.
Your hands and your feet say what you've done.
And every need brings in what's needed.
Pain bears its cure like a child.
Having nothing produces provisions.
Ask a difficult question,
and the marvelous answer appears."
~Rumi

"We collect sunsets in our hearts. What do you do?"
~Sara Kaye, from 282ft below sea level

"Genius is only a superior power of seeing." John Ruskin

"If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think."
~Timothy Ferris, The 4-Hour Work Week

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"We're gonna have to skip the ticklin'."
~Sara Kaye Larson, on cutting to the chase

"You boys gotta make up your minds if you want to get your cookies. Cause if you want to get your cookies, I've got girls up here that'll do more tricks than a goddamn monkey on a hundred yards of grapevine."
~John McCabe, McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

"I stopped halfway through my letter. I never thought much of the mail. It seemed to take too long and I didn't have the patience. I was like that then. I couldn't wait the normal time and then I ended up waiting forever."
~Mona Simpson, The Lost Father

"You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all other worlds
except the one to which you belong."
- David Whyte (thanks Sara)

"Unfortunately, and as most of you are probably well aware, looking for a Real Job is one of the Top Ten Most Depressing Things Ever, just behind Trying on New Jeans and Accidentally Finding Your Ex-Boyfriend's Blog.

Bear with me. Greener pastures ahead."
~Your Ill-fitting Overcoat

"The truth is easy to type quickly. It's the lying that takes time." --Charles Veprek and Bethany Toews, via chat

"You are a metropolis of 50 trillion citizens, says biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton. Each of the cells in your body can be considered a sentient being in its own right. They all act together as a community, performing an ongoing act of prodigious collaboration. You are an epic collaboration." ~Rob Brezsny, PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

"If you can't live without it, don't live with it until you can." ~Yours truly

"Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than saltwater taffy gets you ready for the ocean, or Bring Your Child to Work Day prepares you for the lonely times of going to work." ~David Handler, Adverbs

"Ultimately, I think neither one of us wears the pants in this relationship... but I definitely wear the short shorts."
~jG Francis to me

"One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity." ~Bruce Lee

"2 things need to change, me and my number."
~Jamie Masters, on breakups

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." ~Mark Twain

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
~Salvador Dalí

"There's a lot of meat in between these teeth." ~jG Francis, after eating at Barn Burner "Best BBQ This Side of Texas"

"The way you are today is just one stage of your journey. It is not how you will always be. You are not how you appear. You are a hero on a journey." ~Carol S. Pearson, The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By (thanks Sara)

"The only thing you should be ashamed of is keeping that talent to yourself." ~Sara Kaye Larson to Jamie Masters after viewing her's and James Dunham's short film That Night

"Relax, you'll live longer."
~Arnie "The Governator" Schwartz as Douglas Quaid, Total Recall

"What time is it? Is it too late to go to the beach?"
~Sara Kaye Larson, at 1:40 in the afternoon, sitting, drinking ice tea and talking about unemployment

"I'm going to dip my fake meat in your hummus."
~Jessica Masters, a vegetarian at a picnic

"If you are a woman there is nothing in the world that will keep you from this movie on opening weekend." ~Josh Tyrangiel, of TIME Magazine, regarding Sex and The City (side note: this is not a factual statement, unless I am in fact not a woman)

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." ~Calvin Coolidge

"Wow, what a beautiful sky! I've never seen him make it like that before." ~the homeless, shirtless man with a transistor radio that wanders my neighborhood

"I hearby demand that all people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet."
~Daniel Handler, Adverbs