To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.

Major cities are divided into two parts; the bits that are in the guidebook and the bits that aren't. If you don't take a guidebook, you'll see a different city.

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.

I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.

While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars