We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there

Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.

And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

Because I could feel you, I was drowning with you.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible. I think a change of direction may be what's needed.

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.