A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

In the present, every day is a miracle.

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

In the present every day is a miracle.

America - the best poor man's country in the world.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

I'm a pretty loyal person.

The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

People are always misquoting me.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.