His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!

As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.

I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive!

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

So you met someone who set you back on your heels - goody, goodyYou met someone and now you know how it feels - goody, goody

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.

We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.