This is called ‘Black Box’, for the girl who holds the key to mine.

I don’t believe in coincidence or fateBut I know one thing for sureYour face was meant to beBurned into the deepest reachesOf my blackest memories.

Once you see the good in someone, it’s hard not to notice the good in everyone.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.

Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten.

We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.

We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.