the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

We would give anything for what we have.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely

Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.

No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.

Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness.As long as there is desire, we will not be safe

Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

My only mistake was in waiting too long to be rid of you", Adri said, running the washcloth between her fingers. "Believe me, Cinder. You are a sacrifice I will never regret.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young.