I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

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.

Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.