But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.

Dogs are just wolves in sheep's clothing.

Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.