God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.

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.

There are no failures. There are only experiences and our reactions to them.

There are very, very few brands that will be brave enough to really, completely take a step back and not to try and control what is considered beautiful.

Mexico is ripping off the US more than almost any other nation.

We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Become a possibilitarian.

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.