...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

Don't wait for someone to enable you to make something.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move.

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.