Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it.

To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.

It's hard enough to be alive and human, without the additional burden of being me.

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices.

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.