But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Obsession is like a pretty, little, picket fence that offers itself up as a thin line--a separation between ingenuity and insanity.

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.

I can only control what I can control.

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.

There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.

Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.