It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.

As long as some sufferThe River Flows ForeverAs long as there is painThe River Flows ForeverAs strong as a smile can beThe River will Flow Forever

What if the very reason you were created was to be creative?

I thought when you finally kissed me, I'd be able to walk away." He shook his head, his voice lowering to a throaty whisper. "I was dead wrong.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.

Books about suicide make lousy gifts.