It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

You need to decide to stop letting their crazy box you in.

A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

No season now for calm, familiar talk.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

A bar would not be a good career move for you.

This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.