I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

Once upon a time, he might’ve chased her and tumbled her in the sheets with the promise of more in the future.

This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble never unhappy or ill never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Loving yourself means being your own best friend, standing by yourself at all times, including times of failure; being there for yourself no matter what.

For a morning raine leave not your journey. [For a morning rain leave not your journey.]

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.