Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

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.

…it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it’s a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have!

I only need 1 thing: Everything" - Sengoku Nadeko

Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

What would you do if you had to choose?

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.