The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'