We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it.

She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.

The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.

Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.

My features have blunted with the passage of time, my reflection only faintly resembles how I see myself. Gravity demands payback for the years my body has resisted it.

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

I'm convinced that Theoretical Physicist is just another way of saying BS Artist.

Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.

There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

winning is not everything it is the only thing

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.