People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

One is but a shade of the other.

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

You can always become better.