His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all.

For what is more lovable than failure?

She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.

Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you’ll have to learn to deal with failure.

Success feeds confidence.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

You want the scent? Smell yourself!

I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Endorsed by Bob Jones, despite calling Mormonism a "cult".

Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.

Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.