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.

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.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Remember this: You are the expert of your body.

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.

We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

I've lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that's something that makes you better at my job, not worse.

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

Life is a house with millions of doors. Here is a good strategy of life: Open the doors, open as much as you can, open as much as possible, open the doors!

Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.