“When all else fails, read the instructions.”

Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.

It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.

You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

You decided what you thought you’d like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish.