It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

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.

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

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

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

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.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

Fate is for losers.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

I think the killers get far too much attention.