Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Never live what you see. Never follow what you know.

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.

Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.