We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale

I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

The only way to always be relevant is to focus on what's eternal. Everything in style will soon be out of style.

I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.