...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

I enjoy being surprised.

[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.

That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Lines don't make a beautiful woman less beautiful.

He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

Bhakti is a Social Force

I love what I'm doing for a living.