Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.

Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

Using Pain To Relieve Pain. Doesn't Make Much Sense. But It Works.

Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

I bet if I give all my love then nothing's gonna tear us apart.

The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

The storytelling ... is kind of amazing.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.