In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

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.

Every peak and valley of your life has led you to deeper understanding and, ultimately, growing compassion.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

Privilege" is something else."Privilege" is a judgment."Privilege" is an opinion."Privilege" is an accusation.

Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years.

Everything is possible if you try enough so if something doesn't work out, you're not trying enough.

A woman is more humble, more grateful, more loving.

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.