Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.

Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.

It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.

Every war has turning points and every person too.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.