"You try to squeeze a little more Charmin in the pads when you face him."

“Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.”

“Let's not get naughty. How about homicidal instead?”

“When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.”

“I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.”

“Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.”

“But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?”

“One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.”

“We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.”