Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
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.
Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
Keep your treasure to yourself.
Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.
The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
There’s nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It’s a total turn-off.
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.
If God drives a car, He’d drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn’t arrive.
All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I’m kidding. But killing helps.
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.
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it’s seemingly smooth.
Being asked what animal you’d like to be is a trick question; you’re already an animal.
When you grow up these days, you’re told you’re going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don’t tell you is that you’re also going to be four or five different people along the way.
Los Angelenos dress like they’ve been focus-grouped.