It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

Savings give you a lot of strength, flexibility and control. They are what give you the most powerful Answer In The World.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.