Friends are God's apology for relations.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

Do you mind if we leave here so I can chain smoke 'til I throw up so it will be easier to quit?

In a sport that demands compulsion, sometimes the hardest task is having the confidence to rest.

Cop families have guns in their houses.

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it, while pain has her wanton way with you.

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

Your head will be fine,” said Miri. “It’s your neck you should worry about.

Thoughts are living things - they travel far.