I didn’t like trusting, I didn’t like setting greater than mild expectations,

I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.

My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs’ turn to roll the dice.

Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.

I was determined to stay off the see-saw of crazy

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

Every time a customer calls or you call a customer, you have an opportunity and a choice. What choice are you making?

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

I started off as a Star Trek fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

The ripping and tearing of an unborn child from his mother's womb through the hands of another, and we say, "That's fine; you have a constitutional right to do that."