Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Should she slam his head into the bar or toss her beer on him? Damn shame to waste good beer.

Never allow your head to be buried in the grave of the fearful, mediocrity, and purposeless. Get up and begin to produce something great with your life. Stand out and stand tall.

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching.

Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.