Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.

Happiness is inside you, not with another person

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.