If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.