The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

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 have been complaining so long about your labour pains. It's time to show us your baby! What at all have you been dreaming about that long? Let's see it and give it a name!

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.

The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

I'm single again and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm loving it at the moment. This is what I've been missing.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.