We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

The heart of a man is like deep water

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.