Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

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.

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.