Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

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.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.