Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more.

To be truly elegant one should not be noticed

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.

The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.