By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.

Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul

Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.

The Christmas spirit that goes out with the dried-up Christmas tree is just as worthless.