BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

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.

Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind.

It is so hard to stay afloat in a world that just wants to drown you.

Through the eyes of a happy girl lies guilt and destruction.

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

Hate never can win a heart, Only love can do that.

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!

Women are the guardians of morality.

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.