“I tell myself Im fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.”

“I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. Its the living. Those of us left behind.”

“I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.”

“there is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they'll get there.”

“I'm completely out of control, and I can hear the beginnings of the chant, get/out/, but now that I'm not being touched maybe I can master it and I shut the world out: separating an orange into ski...”

“I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe.”

“There has to be new words to explain new worlds.”

“People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.”

“In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Ever...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. Thats the secret of success.”

“He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. Its not in having things, but in having mas...”

“We must strive to become more daily. We must honestly assess our weaknesses and overcome them. We must work toward the highest possible version of ourselves. This is a worthy use of our time, but i...”