Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.

In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.

Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.

Love changes things

We have to change the world to fit us, not the other way around.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.