I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.

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.

Hollywood shines by virtue of light within.

To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.

Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.