It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

Now is the time to recall the enthusiasm of our first fervor, the determination to offer ourselves unreservedly, and at the same time to let go of the craving for emotional consolation,

Love for me is comfort. I feel most loved and most capable of giving love when I am around people or in places that make me comfortable.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

You must have a passion to coach.

No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an easy filter to put any story through.