When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

What comes from experience is knowledge, what comes naturally is wisdom.

Even when your heart is blue, I'll safely hold it. I really don't mind these indigo-stained hands.

You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness.

Because of grace so many people will miss salvation

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. [...] I am the least partisan person I know.

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.