Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

A broken thing can't fix itself.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

If you have complete control over the damned thing, you're not going fast enough.

Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.