There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.