In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth.

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!