If you can't laugh, you won't make it.

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

Deep down in my heart, I know that I know nothing.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.