My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

Why should things be easy to understand?

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

A screaming comes across the sky.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

Never let your negative circumstances blindfold you from seeing your daily blessings. There is always something to be thankful for in your life. Being alive is absolutely one of them.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.