The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

After a full belly all is poetry.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

Conscious humility is the decision to live from our hearts.

Nothing is worth the loss of one's conscience, or the ability to do what is right.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.