We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

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.

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.

I don't take anything for granted.

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

Cancer changes your whole life.