My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.

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.

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.

Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

We must sow the seed, not hoard it.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.