In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

No one made sense of the love they shared. They didn't get the hang of it either. But together, the clocks of winter stopped.. And autumn's fallen leaves turned, swiftly, scarlet.

I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never have visited, and present them with situations they may never have encountered.

Life is like Alice's White Rabbit. He runs away and does not grab anything, but this is not important: what matters is to keep on pursuing him.

I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.