Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

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.

[W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment.

Inside her it was as if death didn’t exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal.

... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life.

The goods we spend we keep; and what we save We lose; and only what we lose we have.

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.

Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

Social evolution may be the result of intention, but it rarely, if ever, produces the result intended.

Our aspirations are our responsibilities.