Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.

I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain.

I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.

She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.