Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

Live it already, write about it from the point of view of already having it, and be so happy and grateful at its impending arrival.

By no means do I try to go out and hang out with famous people.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

The only person I can amaze is me.

I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.