It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.

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.

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

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.

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.