I don’t have a need for speed. I’m not that guy.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Like Frank Sinatra, I’m doing it my way.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I don’t go to parties in general.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I don’t eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.