Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before.

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.

This was too much for him to handle. It was like watching memories of his life play out from a different camera angle, sometimes with new scenes added. He was living DVD extras.

There is a fine line between paranoia and sensibly caring for our already overburdened bodies.

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.