Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

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.

Love life comes last in my life. I put real life first.

We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.

Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I.

For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.

Once you wrestke Rikki Atakki, an hour later you want to wrestle him again.

We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.