Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.

Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.

I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

The rain begins with a single drop

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.

When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak?

Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate - slowly at first, then all at once.