In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

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.

Great is the sin. But greater is God's grace.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

There's no heaven on earth. God would have to guide her through the problems.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Forget about the reasons why you can't in life and start to try

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Pop stars should not eat.

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.