This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.

Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.

There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.

A real relationship is two-way.

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way.

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

I was going up to the bathroom and a woman asked me: "Have you a good memory for faces?" I asked why and she said: "Because there isn't a mirror up there."

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world!

I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over.