There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

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.

Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.

I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.

I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.