Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother.

Don’t be stupider than you need to be, I remind myself. Remember Calease? The last glowing girl you talked to tried to kill you.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.