#Insight

"If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is creating his own heaven by creating hell for others."

"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."

"Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented."

"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."

"Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding..."

"You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil."

"I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps."

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

"They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?"

"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

"Nothing carries meaning. People carry meaning. We are the porters of importance."

"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."

"The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity."

"Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."

"Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered."

"The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself."

"Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside."