Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

There is no art without Eros.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

I have no words for my reality.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

In my experience, influence is power.

Be excellent and party on dudes.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

People criticize a woman for everything - like, I get criticized for how my hair looks when I go grocery shopping or the fact that I don’t wear makeup when I get my nails done.