Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

Alone, we are great, but together, we are better.

Being a keen observer, I would think to myself, who is approachable? Who is someone I'd like to know? Who is putting out welcoming vibes?

I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.

I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.