I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to 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.

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Imagination and reality have little in common

The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.

I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.