And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.