The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

It began as a mistake.

The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

Paths are made by walking

Plan B is if Hillary [Clinton] is indicted. Then, even if I missed the deadlines for the first couple of primaries, I'll be there to rescue the party. All bets are off.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

I’ve always had a big crush on Arjun Rampal. He’s so damn good looking

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.