Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.

The worst losses come at night.

Every day is precious. You will never live THIS day again. It is ONE event in human history. Why not make it count? Time is a nonrenewable resource.

You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

I can't think of anything when I'm depressed. I just want to be alone.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.