You can't live a healthy life on a sick planet.

I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

Your desire to advise other people, grows in line with your perception...that assumes you're wiser than them.

All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez.

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.