More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.

It’s difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.