I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

There's something ugly about the flawless.

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

What molds us is what maims us.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

I always find sports-related ways to stay in shape.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.