History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Wednesday had come and gone in a single breath. As I dreamt of divine love, Picasso, and a vast field of gold, a new dawn had already begun.

Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.

Baby, I was in a war. Of course I get it. That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. I was that guy once. We were all that guy, for at least a minute. We had to be.

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

Life hath more awe than death.

Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.