In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when Im working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

The more you touch something, the stronger it becomes.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

Stark times remind our souls that things do not matter...people do.