It's hard letting go of the past, when there are no firm handholds in the future.

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

Awareness creates another world - an already existing world where you were not aware of its existence! It is an operation of ‘mature cataract’ surgery!

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

There is no light for those who do not know darkness.