To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water.

Marriage is sleeping together in a bed a little too narrow.

I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

You have to get lost before you can be found.

curling leaves and twining branches outside my bay window look like a Van Gogh in the starlight - there is a river out there somewhere

The more I learn, the less I know.

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

To have a productive happy life you have to focus on two things: focus on what you want and enjoy what you have.

I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.

I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Sometimes you have to be clever.

And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me.

Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

I don't eat green things, no vegetables.