Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Make peace with what is.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

White bridal dresses stunning and pure, bringing promises, binding two souls together, life forces connected, holding the same vision.

Things do not need especialities to become special, just understand them as special and they will be.

The End of every maker is himself.

Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy.

It's hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.