Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

Time wounds all heals.

Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.

I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.

Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy.

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.