Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

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.

Be wholly committed to your dreams.

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

There can be no stewardship without stewards.

To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.

Banana daiquiris aren't knock-'em-back-by-the-flagon.