The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

Even if you delegate that responsibility, ultimately you are the one responsible for howyour brand is portrayed.

Use your imagination, " I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you.

Really?""No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember.""Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

We all know smoking is bad. I know I'm going to quit someday, if I thought I wasn't I'd quit now.

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.

Got dragon balls like my name was Vegeta

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.