And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?

But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.

Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!

I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.