“Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.”

“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.”

“If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.”

“A negative mind will never give you a positive life.”

“Society is going to judge you no matter what you do.”

“Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”