Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.

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.

I had no male friends now, though I did have a strong community of intelligent, supportive, funny women and I felt confused as to why they weren't enough for me,

Where's your sense of misadventure?

Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me.

How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

All countries have problems with China's economic power.

I'm a big believer in dreaming. If you don't dream it, you can't become it.

If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.