When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

You express the truth of your character with the choice of your actions.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

One finger up, and I'm out Cause you ain't even worth two

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.