There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.

Chin up princess, or the crown slips.

In suffering, we build our strength for the ultimate success.

Risk is the unique path to success.

If you want to keep on getting what you are getting, Keep on doing what you are doing".

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.

That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.

You cannot change me; this is the way I am.

Notice what no one else notices and you'll know what no one else knows.