I’ve matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.

I’m only human, she told herself. There’s not enough room in my heart for everyone.

That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

It’s a matter of dignity, ” the Chief explained. “At a certain point, that’s all you have left.

He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.

Let your personality be your profit and not your punishment.

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.