This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

A broken thing can't fix itself.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

Only dumb people are happy.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.