Wine is not a magic serum of truth. It just silences that smart little voice in your head which advises against saying some dumb shit.

The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written.

Be nice to people on the way up. Not because you might meet them on the way back down, but.. because what's the point in going through life being a c**t to everyone

At 23 I thought I knew everything, by 33 I realised I knew nothing.

In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people.

Liberty will always triumph over fear and fundamentalism. Our desire to be free is greater than their desire to terrorise and our capacity to love far exceeds their capacity to hate.

Once you sell people fear, they'll buy just about anything.

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

If you were stranded in the ocean in a small boat with a paddle, I’d tell you to pray to God, but row for the shore!

Own your errors but never be consumed by them. If you are willing to learn they provide great opportunities for how not to do it a second time around.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.