There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

If God is for you, nothing can stand against you

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Every successful cancer treatment includes the following three ingredients: thorough detoxification, a change of diet and mental or spiritual work.

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.