I've had everything pierced at some point..

It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love..

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me..

I have not been briefed..

all deaths are one's own..

Often the most specific stories end up being the most universal..

Everything I touch is a success..

Would he find her? Without question. Would he save her? Always..

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa..

the history of melancholia includes all of us..

I'm not going to be remotely funny..

God does not change, but He uses change—to change us. He sends us on journeys that bring us to the end of ourselves. We often feel out of control, ye….

I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does..

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence.

It is in your nature to destroy yourselves..

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo..

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does..

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself..

He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward..

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting..

I do to others what they do to me, only worse..