I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

It is important not to show too many inches at once.

My love is inside me where my fat was.

I always want to sleep on the third date.

Beauty was all I’d ever cared for. It was all that ever moved me.

When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.

Contentment is indispensable joy.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.