There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

I wish you way more than luck.

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

every failure is also a victory.

John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.