In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

What has been is no more. Change has come.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.