The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.

Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for the mind-altering glimpse at the future in 'Star Wars.'

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

We get sick because of something inside going wrong! We get well because of something inside going right!

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.