He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

If you want to be prosperous, then you will have to become a seeker

I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day, ' and I loved it.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

Donald Trump's got to do some big changes, because what he was voted on. But when you think about how to do it, it would take massive expertise, which his people, believe me, do not have.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten times better than stretching silently.

I don’t know what’s gonna happen in 30 years, and that’s…awesome.

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.