The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action.

The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action,

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.

I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.