Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Things don't go away. They become you.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.

Diminish the influence of fate

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve.

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of