Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Humankind is the greatest resources.

I refuse to be silenced.

I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.