I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?

What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.

A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain.

...if you live feeling likeYour glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

There is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

When I turned 30, I knew my life was at a crossroads. It was either over, or I was going to restart.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?