In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

I don't really have a plan. I've lived a very big life, and I don't feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother.

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch.

Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

I'm not a movie star and I know that.