You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram.

Frenchman: Germans with good food.

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.