We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.

I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.