You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

. “Love doesn’t please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.

Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!

However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.