I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.

But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.

Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

Good manners are a sign of strength.

THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.

Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Don't mind us, we're just spilling our guts. If this is love, I don'twant to be hanging by the neck in front of an audience of Death.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.