It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70, 000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that.

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.