"Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold."

"I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding."

"There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right."

"I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there."

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"To question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Of course, I do everything for money."