When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

Too much salt will spoil the curryand too many faults will spoil the harmony.

People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

If you want to change the world, be that change.

The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.