I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Give up trying to make me give up

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

That which costs little is less valued.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.