It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Music give infinite strength.

I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

Ever since the Federal reserve was born, (in 1913) we have been living under a lie.

Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.