That's the crazy things about lies, you start to believe them yourself." (pg. 342)

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

Reasonable things would never bring you joy as much as unreasonable ones do.

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.

Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.'

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.