Death is the greatest goal of anyone. It is something no other living human can achieve

You are limitless! Accept this truth and soar to infinity.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Deliberately plan to be exciting and to be excited.

A conversation isn't a competition.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

The world has no long injustices.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

…You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.