The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.

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.

Always be bold in everything you do, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it which makes impossibility possible

No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.

I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.

I've married a friggin horse. And he bites.

I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.