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Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

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

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.

You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.

The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.

In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

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

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

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

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

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