I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19

Love brightens and purifies the heart.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

Heres the thing: If youre taking roles that arent intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if its not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.