Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.