In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

We shouldn't judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should just leave them the hell alone.

Education is the future of a nation

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."

I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

I like working with family and friends and people I admire. All my movies are filled with family members of some capacity. I think it means more when you have a personal relationship with someone.

I fell in love with doing yoga.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

I'm too rich to care what the critics say.