Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

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.

A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.

Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would've been like Woodstock.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.