The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

You know what gives me the courage to keep on living? The courage to love myself a little? It's having a whole bunch of friends who really give a goddamn. When you share pain, there's less of it, and when you share joy, there's more of it.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.