The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.

The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.

Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of p**sy." Cat

In music, you collaborate with people. It's supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing.

In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.

Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.