We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.

The world isn’t the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.

– Some people forget, do you know – they forget what it is like to be young, to feel things ruthlessly, terribly. If you forget that much of life, well, I don’t know.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

If the United States wants to prevent other countries from acquiring the bomb, it must be prepared to reduce and eventually end its own reliance on nuclear weapons.

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.