worth quoting

Isn't all great art kind of a mirror?

Because we're more willing to gamble when it comes to losses, but are risk averse when it comes to our gains.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

The sooner you accept the dull, miserable nature of your existence, the happier you'll be.

Happy dreams only make me less happy after I wake up. I should have never had happy dreams in the first place.

That was the problem with a world in which there was so much uncertainty about why things ended up the way they did: you never knew whether one day your luck would turn and it would all be washed away.

An understanding of history is part of the process of exercising control over our own lives, whether as individuals, groups or societies.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

I act scary, Mike. But most of the time, I'm terrified.

...the hardest thing to do is to admit you're wrong.

The best things in life aren't things at all; they're experiences...like this.

And it's better to be hurt by one you love than never know love at all

You're moving to Chicago? Is that even a real place? It's a style of pizza. Ted, you can't live in a pizza.

Don't ask me why, old sport, but somebody up there likes you.

I don't know anybody in Indianapolis, and I don't know anything about Indianapolis except for one thing, a thing I read in a book. Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.

It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody.