How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Bullies are packed animals, when one fuels the fire others follow.

One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

The fun is having friends who help each other get free.