It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh, ' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.

Reach out, with all your heart, to your divine-dreams.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Everyone has limitations. Know that when you always say “I wish I am like someone else”, you are attempting to take alongside someone’s limitation you may not be able to manage.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.