No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

For adventure is not outside a man it is within.

He just likes to have fun, Papa.""That's not a quality that gets you far in life.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.

I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.