The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Once bitten, totally smitten.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Dreams are our only geography—our native land.

Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.

Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

Nobody can hear you read music.

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.

When we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt.