..., dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don't think about that. I don't think about a style.

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

You're 'wealthy' if you don't worry

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

I value so many people who have to work full time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much.

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.