Circumstances don't determine who you are, or what you will be. Only you do that. You either decide, or you don't. Even the decision not to decide was still yours.

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

This is my vision-what I imagine I'll pass through on my way to the light. The blue sky, the clouds, the rays of light.

...the man of my dreams is a girl.

Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.

What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?

What you see, isn't always what you get

Is that all I am? A friend?" "Of course not," I say. "I love you." "Am I the only one?" she asks. "Yes. Completely." First, last, and always.

Pursue peace and harmony with all men.

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?