Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Life can be very hard sometimes and you wonder why, but a little compassion is sometimes all anyone needs to get by.

I’ve always wondered about your name, ” Misha said to Hijja while scraping a bit of space gunk from the window of their spaceship.

Don't criticise the person who talks to himself

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

Sodomy will always be a sin with god, even if its legal in Massachusetts.

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.