For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.