A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Things don't go away. They become you.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.

Diminish the influence of fate

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.

Make your choice, make your decision... right now!

One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.

A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

I loathe that I did love, In youth that I thought sweet