Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.

Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous. The weather is sublime, it's glorious, it's the end of the world.

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

Girls were nice to me in the same way that they would be nice to a hamster. I fantasized about wild encounters with females but knew they'd never happen unless my own involvement could somehow go undetected.

There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.