While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

Ride your rainbow from end to end, enjoy each hue, seek ii'ts legend.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I'm broke. I'm nothing.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.

The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

It costs a lot to build bad products

Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.