Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.

That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am.

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

In relationships it is best to assume nothing.

My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.

You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

Most people can’t seem to see the relationship between truth, honesty and national development.

For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

[I think] everybody should see a dermatologist.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.