The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Things don't go away. They become you.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.

Diminish the influence of fate

How is something authorised as 'feng shui compliant' he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Abundance is looking for you

A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!

...the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.

People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

We're a humane country. We got to make sure that we find the intelligence. We have do it [protecting our boundaries] in a humane way following the law.

Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.