Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

If a religion cannot help a human wherever he or she stands, it is not of much use.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

I'm not going to be mean to anybody.

We are going to suspend the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening cannot occur.

The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.