You are confusing plumbing and love again.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

The mystery in "Eyes of your Eyes" can never be found in the interstellar space unless you encounter timelessness.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

If Donald Trump wins, it will be a seismic event.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.