Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

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.

There is no point reminding you the memories you don't remember.

Believe in yourself, you can do whatever you want.

Taiwan is democratic.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.