Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.

There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.

The eternal spacecreates the temporary spacesand anti-spacesfor zero.

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

The horse does not eat cucumber salad

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.