The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Mutually assured destruction.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

I got bored, " he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

India will be tomorrow what China is today.

Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.