Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and should be taken in small doses.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

I dream of a house full of books.

Apes. The moon woke them--round the world's navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

What is life, but one long risk?

I treat myself occasionally and don't have any guilt or conditions placed on it.

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.

There's a snap about Liverpool that just isn't there.

We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.