Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.

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 I have to question a friendship, then it wasn't a friendship to begin with.

What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

Being a woman, I tried, I cared, I loved and blamed in return.

Mistakes are a combination of your choices and has nothing to do with your capacity.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I do think the internet has killed the mystery of the planet. It's removed the pain, the passion, and the struggle - I firmly believe they're all part of creativity.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.