America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.

Talking jaw is better than going to war.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and global surveillance is also the era of the integral accident.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.