The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

Equality is a mortuary word.

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

Even knaves may be made good for something.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

When it hurts, you can't think of the entire picture. If you break it down to the moment, it becomes manageable.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.