This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

You have the power to feel good—or not—just by being conscious of what you choose to think. Choose to focus on hope and healing.

The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.

I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

With me, everything's right on the table.

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

Yoga is the best tool to help you change your mind about your body

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

What transforms us is not what we do but our integration with WHAT IS.