Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.

Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.