Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

Our world-view determines the manner in which we engage the world.

I'm aware that I should end a joke with the good part, I choose not too.

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

Become who you are!

If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.

Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.

If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me?

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.