If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.