Perfection is a moving target

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way.

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.

There are moments. You will know them.

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

What if...? A question we ask to hurt ourselves.

We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?

I've done so many bad things in my life but the stars always forgave me.

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

She laughed. My favorite music.

Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

The big show is inside my head.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.