On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

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.

Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused."And changed us all, " Petra said softly.

Everything is subjective.

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.

Well, I'm not going to be singing about lollipops because I no longer relate to lollipops.

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

Nobody, at least sitting in my seat , is defending drunk driving. I am not for drunk driving.