Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully.

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.