Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

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.

If you want to find inspiration Dare to fall, because the view down there is deep.

The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased.

A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.

I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.

We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved.