Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

It depends on you whether you want wrinkles or dimples on your face.

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.

The past is our very being.

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see

There's so much more to life than what you're feeling now

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.