Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip.“No, the divorce was great, ” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

If we are with someone out of choice, we should act accordingly, and choose to communicate rather than deteriorate.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

Look, if you think your need to complain is more important than the lives of the people that are counting on us, go whine somewhere else!

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful instrument of imbuing value in an object than parting with it.