In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

I'm sorry, " Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.

True success and satisfaction in stock investments comes from owning both your failures and your successes.

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

The world is full of beauty as other worlds above And if we did our duty it might be as full of love.

With each person our heart loves, our soul becomes stronger.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.