Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Whatever’s eating at you, let it go. Emotion leads to poor decisions. Poor decisions lead to scrutiny. Scrutiny is our greatest threat.”The Barn, by Ken Cruickshank

Every cloud of confetti has a dark lining.

The problem with car insurance is that you never know how bad your policy is until you are involved in a car crash. At that point enlightenment begins.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.