You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.