A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.

Don't be afraid to be who you are because you are the only person who knows you best.

The moon is my fear.The sun is my heart afire.The stars, my love songs.

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

There's so much to be afraid of.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

With anything, you have to approach from an educational, mature standpoint.