Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

It is as if Quincey has replaced the sun in my universe and it is around him that I spin.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.