If someone you love asks you to give up something you love, don't do it.

Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.

History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.

Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small—they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.

of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be.

Mr. Welper, of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be.

Imagination is one of the few things a man can count on if he's got the reality to feed it.

My instinct told me that she didn't want me to understand. What she felt and lived with couldn't be shared or understood by anyone else.

you have always a choice between being a winner or a loser in your life.

Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

Everyone knows if you're going to take weed to school, you put it in your trapper keeper to keep it fresh.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can wear.

I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.

Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.

Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.