Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.

Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

I’m not a poet—I’m a drifter in the arts.