…and available man candy. But at least there would be mud, and maybe cows.” p12

He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great.

War isn't about making historywar is about breaking the present.

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Education is the apprenticeship of life

People got very wimpy about 'Scarface' very quickly.