You can't expect people who are too lazy to run to accompany you on a marathon.

I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

We don't live forever... Our legacy does.

We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.

The economy is like a machine.