Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be

For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.

Excellence is going the extra mile.

Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care.

I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.