I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy 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.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me.

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplised for God.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.