I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.