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

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.