90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me?

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

What do any of us ever truly know?

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".