Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.