Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

The omelette tasted like flannel.

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.

Who does it hurt? That's who the story is about.

Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.

[H]er spare strange beauty was not that of a woman, nor even of a statue, but that of the Platonic absolute of which all beauty is but a shadow in a cave, cast by the Fire beyond fire.

Good luck is taking action on the intersection point of rising opportunity and your life preparation

For humans—trapped in biology—there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in the ground like garbage.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

It does not matter if you believe in God, because God believes in you.

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.