For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

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.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.

The best revenge is kind forgiveness.

Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?

What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.

Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.