“Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a placebo, a fairy tale that gives the hopeless hope, but sometimes a little hope is all peop...”

“I believe, if there is some sort of higher power, the universe is it. Whenever religious people ask me where the universe came from, I tell them that it has always been here, and was never created....”

“Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.”

“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.”

“A beautiful woman can have almost any man she wants. A rich man can have almost any woman he wants.”

“Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our w...”

“If everything happens for a reason that means you made the right choice even when its the wrong choice”

“If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is it will probably be okay, then run the other way because what youre contemplating is not a good choice.”

“...a noisy parade of memories that frustrate her because of the way they play themselves out. These memories-it feels like she's back there in the moment, like she has the moment to do over and mak...”

“Coming from where we do, its a rough adjustmentliving here. He put a hesitant hand on her shoulder, his calluses scratching against the fabric of her dress. Its true what they say about life in the...”

“This wasnt the Dark Ages, and she wasnt living in a third world nation where women didnt have any rights and were treated unequally.”

“Coming from where we do, it’s a rough adjustment—living here.” He put a hesitant hand on her shoulder, his calluses scratching against the fabric of her dress. “It’s true what they say about life i...”

“In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to gu...”

“Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.”

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words ...”