That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.

I’m only human, she told herself. There’s not enough room in my heart for everyone.

It’s a matter of dignity, ” the Chief explained. “At a certain point, that’s all you have left.

I’ve matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.

Now don't you understand man universal lawWhat you throw out comes back to you, starNever underestimate those who you scarCause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

. . . in the storm of emotions, we can create a small, peaceful sanctuary within.

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

I will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback.