Wisdom

Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.

Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.

We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.

What a blessing it is to love books.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you.

Wise wretch! With pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live.

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.

The public has a taste for supping with the great.

Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... In a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.

We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness,' she said, 'only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous.

All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember.