I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

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.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Ask the Lord to reveal to you the reason why He created you

We should be people of principles and should fight for these principles

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics

Where thou art that is home.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

We need to get out of this fetid pusshole and get to some higher ground.

Never be ashamed of passion. If you are strongly sexed, you are richly endowed.

Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.