Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got...""Well then you've got nothin.

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

American literature has always been immigrant.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!