She went crazy with a calm face, justifiably so.

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.

... he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.