What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?