Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

What will survive of us is love.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

Love me less, but love me for a long time.

Always improve on things you do better and faster.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.

It's tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality - who hasn't seen you on TV and is like, 'Hey!'