I have never in all my life considered you other people.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

and if i asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?

A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.