All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

You’re insane.”“It’ll work.”“Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.

The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers.

To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose, is a simple matter of creating those blessings for others.

It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.

I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of it.

If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?

Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.