The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

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.

The only two words you should ever say to a mirror are "Hello, Beautiful.

The world is God's world after all.

I've never experienced- besides the birth of my two daughters-the feeling of winning a world championship in New York in the new stadium. It's something I'll never forget.

I don't like to follow too many trends because trends tend to make women look like they are wearing uniforms.

Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game

Human nature is a work in progress.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.