Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better fighter. That's why I'm a martial artist. For me, it's more than a job - it's a way of living

If you don't treat your own people well, they won't treat other people well.

Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

While infrastructure is of course important, it must be part of a bigger vision. The point is not to simply dig ditches but to steer those investments towards transformational growth.

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.