Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out.

If it's not bourbon or sweatpants, it's going in the garbage.... No, don't get creative. Now is not a creative time. Now is a bourbon and sweatpants time.

On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.

Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.

I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.

Why would you throw a ball in someone's face?...Huh. That's a pretty good reason. Well, I can't do much about your teacher being pissed, but me and you are good.

No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry.

You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine.

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.

If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

2.15 GRIEFAll the grief of every man, Remove himself – he only can, For this grief that be within, Be caused by his own thinking.[110] - 2

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

Tell the devil to go to hell... that's where he belongs.

A completely secure life can be found only outside the life!

Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.