The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit.

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true.

Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.

To write is to inform against others.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.