Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It's always coldest before the warm.

Being married is effortless

You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.

Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.