I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

In the present, every day is a miracle.

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

In the present every day is a miracle.

It is necessary to grow up in maturity, firmness and courage in order to reach the goal

To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.

It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on.

There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.