There are only two ways to solve a problem: stop dwelling, and start doing.

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

Anna, " he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.

I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

It stirs up envy, fame does.