A lot of people, when you ask if they want to read your epic poem, start bolting for the door.

I think when Aristotle said that man is a political animal, he was really saying that man is a pack animal.

We're social beasts, and we draw society around us.

There's so much we can learn from dogs to become better humans.

The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us

he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolffrom a man ifhe keeps his chin upand his teeth clean.

Knowing someone isn't coming backdoesn't mean you ever stop waiting

Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

My chest of books divide amongst my friends.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.

Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus, you create.

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.