Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Lovers should also have their days off.

That was the ballad of suburbia: give me loud to drown out the silence.

I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad."“Yes, ” said Kate. “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

A recipe is a story with a happy ending.

The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.

I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

You can pray for whatever you want, but it is always best to pray for others, not for yourself.

Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.