"Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again."

"Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings."

"Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue."

"The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity."

"Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative."

"Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now."

"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

"When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth."

"If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men."

"Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together."

"The truth knocks on the door and you say,'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away."

"Men are only as unfaithful as their options."