For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Don’t allow time to while away but take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.

I was thought of before I was born. I am more important than money. If money was more important than me I would not exist. There are days when I wake up I have no money.

Success is a collection of problems solved.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.

I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits.

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past.

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.