People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

Relationships are never chance events.

There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.

Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

To teach is to learn twice.

At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

The two things that scare me most about wrestling fans is that they're allowed to vote and allowed to reproduce.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.