He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

The treasures in you must never be threatened by the gifts in others.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.