Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

What comes from experience is knowledge, what comes naturally is wisdom.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.

God provides the food, men provide the cooks.

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.

I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.