Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

You have all you need, to be all that you want.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Grief is one illness that defies all remedies

We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them.

It’s the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives.

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.