It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

I read science fiction every single day of my life. It's my primary love.

So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any information that will provide aid and comfort to the enemy.

Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.