“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as she drives up the...”

“I have to return some videotapes”

“Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.”

“I want to stay," and then, more weakly, "Need some more sun."A fly from a batch of seaweed lands on a white, bony thigh. She doesn't slap at it. It doesn't go away."But there's no sun, dude." I tel...”

“what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.”

“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.”

“Simon, she'd learned, was a man who studied people. He learned their weaknesses as a way of protecting himself.”

“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times re...”

“Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.”

“Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!”

“The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things c...”

“Success and failure will all come to pass like waves, only Nature remains”

“When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.”

“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”

“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, wou...”