So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.

I would love, obviously, just to keep doing stand-up. That's the constant. That's the thing that I'm going to do for the rest of my life, but also I would like a TV show at some point.

Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.