The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

People are not a threat, wrong ideas are.

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

Twitter is the place where I try to be more funny. And then I use Instagram just as my diary. I pull some jokes on there, but I think people have a better sense of humor on Twitter.

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.

Make an exercise out of everything you can’t do.

To the extent people can't solve a problem, they tend to ignore the problem.