Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

phase two of Operation Fish and CHIPs (Clean House of the Idiot Piranhas)

By the way, the other reason I agreed to help you is because I love your eyes. You have the most beautiful eyes. It's my weakness.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.