A friend once told me "Michael, if you were a villain, you'd be the Joker, " to which I replied, "no, dear friend - if the Joker were a villain, he'd be ME.

And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?

I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just dont take them very often.

Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.