Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.

It turned out that it was difficult to stay cross with a man when you could see his nipples.

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.

Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve.

As you ripen, you’ll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.

Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.