History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.