I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

The most wonderful things that life can offer do not have price tags.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

I keep thinking Naruto... That one of these days your going to finally grow up!

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.