Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love will work no matter what job i have, what nationality I claim, or what street i live on. It will work even if i kiss a woman. and it does.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy.

We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.