SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

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.

You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

Rose, do you think I'd do anything that would hurt you.- Dimitri to Rose