School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really it's the same thing for years and years.

Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.

Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.

But also . . . I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with.

Dreams are sacred future events

The sacred soul writes the sacred words.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.