If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

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.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

I think guys understand love a little better than girls.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.