Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.

Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.

What I must know, only the Master teaches!

I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.

I think it was a subject matter that The Social Network didn't involve a lot of women. That's all I think it is.

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.