Reality is just an interpretation. Some people believe only God really knows what's going on: we mortals just make up our own versions of it.

There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.

When you are young, feelings are your truth. Love is how you feel. The years have taught me that love is not an emotion that you feel about someone, but what you do for them.

When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.

I’m ALL about the Alternative.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

Statistics are designed to keep you safe.

I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a gimpy gorilla like me.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn’t been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.