Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

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.

What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!

Clarity in my cup. Transparency of my soul. Lucidity of myself. Elixir of the ages. Tea makes us all sages.

And she saw beauty even in the tiny sparkles of dust suspended in the air, high above.

You cannot be a light to others or yourself, if you have dark intentions in your heart.

Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.

If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an hour of quality time.