“Our capacity for love isn’t like a gallon jug that you fill up from rest stop to rest stop as you take… — Stuart Rojstaczer Love Copy Share Image
“The love I have given and received has been pure. Driven by loss, I have both used the gift of intellect I… — Stuart Rojstaczer Life Copy Share Image
“To Americans, the outward display of intelligence is considered unseemly. The Donald Trumps of the world can boast about their penthouses and… — Stuart Rojstaczer Intelligence Copy Share Image
“Do not fall in love with someone when that love is heavily dependent on the goodwill and kindness of your parents.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Fall in love Copy Share Image
“I decided to practice revenge in a calmer way, by living well.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Living well Copy Share Image
“This effort to appear dumb—or to put a positive spin on it, to “be a man of the people”—takes a lot of… — Stuart Rojstaczer Better world Copy Share Image
“We’re like rednecks then, zaydeh.” “What are you talking about? I was educated well. I know six languages. I manage the family… — Stuart Rojstaczer Mother and father Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know, even vaguely, the difference between physical deprivation and the emotional loss of one’s child, even when you know that… — Stuart Rojstaczer Children Copy Share Image
“Her craziness was happily wed to her intellect. There are no reasonable geniuses in this world, I am convinced.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Intelligence Copy Share Image
“Tornadoes are a good metaphor for how bad things happen in our lives. They build from small disturbances that usually don’t mean… — Stuart Rojstaczer Bad thing Copy Share Image
“But there was a difference between being bright and possessing those sparks of ideas that lead to original thought.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Creativity Copy Share Image
“But grief always hits hard and somehow lingers longer than exultation in your mind and heart,” — Stuart Rojstaczer Death Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as unnecessary beauty, whether it be physical or intellectual.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Beauty Copy Share Image
“While great hair and teeth are a good start to a political career, an ability to pretend at least half convincingly that… — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
“Disappointment for Slavs is always more poetic and profound, as well as more frequent, than it is for Americans.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
“There is an old joke in Finland, a country proud of its collective introspective character and shyness. “How do you know when… — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
“I thought about my family. It was small by any standard, shrunken to a handful by Hitler, Stalin, and divorce.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Family Copy Share Image
“I liken my marriage in my twenties to the ill-chosen shot by a basketball player, done without any thought from an impossible… — Stuart Rojstaczer Ball player Copy Share Image
“But to try to achieve something massively significant in a field where you’re by and large useless after your fortieth birthday—and my… — Stuart Rojstaczer Optimism Copy Share Image
“Solutions to problems never trespass into anything of real value.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Real value Copy Share Image
“I could insult him for his pedestrian intelligence and whacky ideas, but even I know that there is a bit more to… — Stuart Rojstaczer Intelligence Copy Share Image
“Survival, to my mind, implies a finite probability that without luck and cunning, you will perish.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Luck Copy Share Image
“A Ph.D. big-shot professor. A mother who is a genius. And you shit in plastic bags. Unbelievable” — Stuart Rojstaczer Mother Copy Share Image
“We expect and demand people to maintain bonds with family. It doesn’t matter whether you love or hate your relatives, even ones… — Stuart Rojstaczer Family Copy Share Image
