I read somewhere that every life is the story of a single mistake, and then what happens after.

If you’ve given your all, and it's still not working, it's likely time to move on.

Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.