I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

I don't get straight people, but I understand what they look like.

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.

An actor has to embody a role.

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.