The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

You're much more interesting when you're online - all of us are.

You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.

It does no good to be right, if what you're craving is wrong.

Life without books, chocolate & coffee is just useless.

The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

I wish my fans will always be nice to one another. Don't waste time & enjoy life

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

For me the best part about the racing is to let all your aggression - whatever you've got inside you - out on the bike and just attack everything at all possible times.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.