Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

My grandmother always told me: beauty fades but dumb is forever.

True love is a developed and intense appreciation for someone. It’s that perfect awareness that you are finally whole when she’s with you, and that hollow incompleteness you suffer when she’s gone.

Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

Think twice; it's just another day for you and me in paradise.