I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream.

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything.

Thought alone is eternal.

Win through your actions, never through argument.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.