Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

With you, I would walk anywhere

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

Use our memories as an asset not as a liability. Don't let it be our inner curse but share them as a rare gift.

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

We should turn cyber warfare into one of our greatest weapons against the terrorists and they have to know it's coming because right now they know nothing about us.

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".

And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.