What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am.

We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

In relationships it is best to assume nothing.

My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.

You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

To look in the mirror and smile is a challenge for many people. Those who do so without the slightest scowl are indeed fortunate.

Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting.

It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

As if God's gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV's. It's silly, when you think about it.

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.