I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

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.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love.

Government is dysfunctional.

The more you use the power within you, the more you will draw it to you.

Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.