I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.

Life begins when you do.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

There is something so attractive about a man who is able to laugh shamelessly.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?