He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!

The only walls which bind us and stop us achieving our hearts desires are the walls we build for ourselves

Passive Mind generates mood swings and active mind generates Ideas

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.

Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled.