Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Time wounds all heals.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!

Heroes may die but they doesn't get tired.

Reusable rockets promise much easier testing because you should usually get them back, and you can debug as you go rather than having to get everything perfect the first time.

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.

Wherever your joy is, go after it, ... pretty ladies.

When a woman acts as though she’s capable of everything, she gets stuck doing everything.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.