I’m not afraid of total failure. In the end, we’re all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

He thinks Goliath can end the war, " Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all, " Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.

Pikachu. 'Pika' is the sound Japanese say an electric spark makes. And 'chu' is the sound a mouse makes. So Pikachu is like an electric mouse.

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.