In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

It's nice to see how the suffering does away in time. It always does

Don’t be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

Who’s there?” “The scratcher of your itch,” he said. She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. “Was that supposed to be romantic?

The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.

Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead.

Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own