Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

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.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

Employment leaves you distracted

I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

It's hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.