When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me!

If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.