Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

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 folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.

Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch" -sam

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.