No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.