I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.

But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.

All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.

Question is not whom I am going to love, but question is whom I am going not to love.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape

A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case that show that the program works correctly.

The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.