Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be.

There are only two moments when everything is possible in this life, " said Petrus, "when one drinks, and when one makes up stories.

The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

Everything is awesome... Everything is cool when you're a part of a team.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.

The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.

The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.