Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who echoes your deepest thoughts of yourself

Life is not an arrangement of flowers or a walk in the park

You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who “thinks” they have control over you.

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them, " parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right action―Although not necessarily what is just around the bend.

Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?