I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?

That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.

It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.

I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.

You are heading towards the top if you raise the bar of your standards inch by inch each hour! There is no quick way to success

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong, " and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Some people find oil. Others don't.

In Venezuela, which doesnt have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married.

I think where you play is important.

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.