Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

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.

tears, love, life Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?

It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

There are always more choices than you think.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.