Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.

Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain.

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.

The meaning of everything that occurs in your life is decided by the frame you put around it.

Don't bother about those who can't understand you, because they don't deserve you for what you are.

Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

In the big scheme of things, a little love is all we need

If the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch.

To kill nothing, that is love.

I love France. France is a nice place.

Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

I just like to hear that guys have the same problems that we do.

There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops.