When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

The true friend . . . knows that you need him in that very moment –not tomorrow, not next week. By next week you may happy, or you may be dead.

My two worlds were colliding and the friction of this set fire to my life. It was time to roast some wieners.

I don't need designer things. And YOU are designer, Rush.

PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world

Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.

We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.