Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

When you ask, expect the answer.

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.