“Excuse the mess, but we live here.”

“I hope you'll excuse the mess." David Halpert looked dismayed at the chaos in his living room -- not so much for my sake, but because it was his and he had to live with it.”

“Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”

“Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives.”

“It's a mess, aint it Sheriff?If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here.”

“Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.”