There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

Does that mean that if we shave all the Ob'enn they'll be nice?

Two wrongs never add up to a right. But it's okay, I always sucked at maths.

Dying is easy, but victory comes hard.

There is no better manager than a natural born one.

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.