...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

Relationships are never chance events.

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

The Moment You Stop Making Mistakes Is The Moment You Stop Learning

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.

Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.