If you want breakfast in bed, you have to concider sleeping in the kitchen>

You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Let children wander aimlessly around ideas.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.