I think there is a Paris inside us all.

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.

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down, some break records

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.

We assume, falsely, that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.