People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

You must be present in the present to make it a present. -RVM

I got my heart checked, report says it's perfectly normal, there is no trace of love in it

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.

Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road

As always, Blay was the anchor who kept him from being swept away.

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.